D-Aid – An App to Map Disasters and Manage Relief Teams and Resources

AbstractNatural or man-made disasters cause damage to life and property. Lack of appropriate emergency management increases the physical damage and loss of life. D-Aid, the smartphone App proposed by this article, intends to help volunteers and relief teams to quickly map and aid victims of a disaster. Anyone can put an occurrence after a disaster on a web map streamlining and decentralizing the information access. Through visualization techniques like heat maps and voronoi diagrams on a map implemented in the D-Aid app and also on a web map everyone can easily get information about amount of victims, their necessities and eminent dangers after disasters