Optimized disaster management using augmented reality training and decision support for crisis management teams
What is oKat-SYS?
oKat-SYS pursues Augmented Reality (AR) approaches in
oKat-SYS pursues Augmented Reality (AR) approaches in
- the training and further education of people who take on tasks in disaster control and civil security.
- decision support in the event of a crisis (flooding due to heavy rain events, landslides, forest fires...).
- communicating the impact of historical events.
How is oKat-SYS structured?
oKat-SYS integrates various components in a uniform system:
oKat-SYS integrates various components in a uniform system:
- Training scenarios in which the options for action and their effects can be tested using augmented reality simulation.
- Decision support through high-performance modeling of e.g. flooding based on current/predicted precipitation amounts.
- Decision support through intersection of relevant thematic layers.
- Simulation of historical events to raise public awareness.
What does oKat-SYS want to achieve?
The transfer of scientific knowledge into decision-making. In our case, it is natural hazard models, such as tidal waves and floods, that are intended to form an improved basis for decision-making in crisis management teams.
The transfer of scientific knowledge into decision-making. In our case, it is natural hazard models, such as tidal waves and floods, that are intended to form an improved basis for decision-making in crisis management teams.
- Visualization of historical and future natural disasters for risk analysis.
- Immersive experience of the scenarios and the conveyance of spatial effects.
- Interactively making decisions and evaluating the consequences.
Who is oKat-SYS for?
oKat-SYS is aimed at technically qualified people who take on tasks in disaster control and civil security.
oKat-SYS is aimed at technically qualified people who take on tasks in disaster control and civil security.
- New employees in the crisis team, employed in the middle and upper civil service.
- The focus is on theoretical basics and above all on practical knowledge of location maps and the visualization of geoscientific processes.
- Managers of the staff with departmental and specialist responsibility, often with a legal or administrative background.
- The focus is on advanced management and method skills, situation-specific understanding and the required expertise in the field of natural hazard management.
What do our validation partners say?
» oKat-Sim can help to visualize various influencing factors on the course of damage and to understand complex relationships. Both in training and in real operations.«
» The spatial representation of the area can support the work of the crisis team or the training of the crisis team, so that decisions can be made more quickly if necessary.«
» The work of a public administration, including that of an administrative (crisis) staff, must finally get rid of the "dusty" image. Such an innovative project as oKat-SIM supports us,to prepare our employees in a timely manner for an emergency.«
» oKat-Sim can help to visualize various influencing factors on the course of damage and to understand complex relationships. Both in training and in real operations.«
Johann Edbauer, State Fire Brigade School Geretsried
» The spatial representation of the area can support the work of the crisis team or the training of the crisis team, so that decisions can be made more quickly if necessary.«
Marcel Hoffmann, District Office Garmisch-Partenkirchen
» The work of a public administration, including that of an administrative (crisis) staff, must finally get rid of the "dusty" image. Such an innovative project as oKat-SIM supports us,to prepare our employees in a timely manner for an emergency.«
Sven Schulz, District Office Görlitz
Who is oKat-SIM?
oKat-SYS is the further development of oKat-SIM, a research project funded by the BMBF for 3 years in the field of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) in vocational education.
We are a network of different disciplines, universities, companies and application partners in the rural and urban districts, headed by the Institute for Geosciences at the University of Potsdam.
oKat-SYS is the further development of oKat-SIM, a research project funded by the BMBF for 3 years in the field of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) in vocational education.
We are a network of different disciplines, universities, companies and application partners in the rural and urban districts, headed by the Institute for Geosciences at the University of Potsdam.
Contact
Dr. Gerold Zeilinger
Universität Potsdam
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Phone. +49-331-977-5839
zeilinger@geo.uni-potsdam.de
Dr. Gerold Zeilinger
Universität Potsdam
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Phone. +49-331-977-5839
zeilinger@geo.uni-potsdam.de