Semantic Enhancement of a Virtual Reality Simulation System for Fire Fighting
Fires disasters provoke great destruction of high valuable environments and economical losses, especially when they are located in urban areas. The usage of Virtual Reality Simulator to support the training process of fire fighters and managers has two main advantages: i) it supports the simulation of scenarios like big city fires that could not be simulated in the real world ii) it reduces the accident risks as users are trained to experience situations as alike as possible to real fire. The success of the Virtual Reality Simulator depends on how close to reality the simulation process is; it also requires the integration of heterogeneous data sources like maps and cadastre. Both these aspects are met in this paper by a careful man-agement of Semantics in the information system. Semantics are useful firstly to have a better model of the fire fighting process and a better adaptation of the simu-lation environment to the user profile. They are useful secondly to facilitate the in-tegration of data from heterogeneous sources. This work discusses and presents some preliminary results about how Semantic can enhance Virtual Reality Simula-tors in the fire fighting context.
Semantics Virtual Reality enhancement Fire fighting formalisation ontology real time CityGML
Aitor Moreno Sisi Zlatanova Bénédicte Bucher Jorge Posada Carlos Toro Alejan-dro García-Alonso
Vicomtech, Mikeletegi Pasealekua 57, 20009 San Sebastian, Spain Delft University of Technology, OTB, GIS technology, Jaffalaan 9, 2826 BX, Delft, The Netherlands Université Paris Est, IGN-COGIT. 73 avenue de Paris. 94160 Saint-Mandé, France University of the Basque Country, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 1, 20018 San Sebastian, Spain
国际会议
武汉
英文
430-443
2011-06-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）