SUMMARY

This is introductory paper presenting our recent work in the field of emergency management using GIS. Application being developed should provide tools necessary for spatial and temporal analysis of all data that can be of relevance to the process of emergency management. It should be noted that the data mentioned is usually gathered from geographically dispersed sources which are at the same time of heterogeneous nature. This is the reason why the significant part of the research will be devoted to intelligent integration of information based on ontologies