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First Workshop on Video Analytics in Public Safety

January 19, 2017
Author(s)
John S. Garofolo, Simson L. Garfinkel, Reva B. Schwartz
The first Video Analytics in Public Safety (VAPS) Workshop was held on Monday, June 6, 2016, in San Diego, CA as a satellite workshop of the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Broadband Stakeholder Meeting, which was held on June 7-9. The

COMMUNITY RESILIENCE OF LIFELINE SYSTEMS: SOCIETAL NEEDS AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

January 13, 2017
Author(s)
Chris Rojahn, Laurie Johnson, Thomas O'Rourke, Veronica Cedillos, Therese P. McAllister
The concept of community resilience is a complex, multi-dimensional problem that relies on social science, engineering, earth sciences, economics, and other disciplines to improve the way communities prepare for, resist, respond to, and recover from

Direct and Cascading Effects of Seismic Events on the Response of Water and Electrical Power Networks

December 22, 2016
Author(s)
Roberto Guidotti, Hana T. Chmielewski, Vipin Unnikrishnan, Gardoni Paolo, Therese P. McAllister, John W. van de Lindt
Water and electrical power networks are critical infrastructure in our communities; their disruption, e.g., due to the occurrence of hazard events, greatly affects communities' well-being, the economic and social response of the entire region and recovery

Guide Brief 5: Assessing Energy System Dependencies

December 13, 2016
Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
A major aspect of characterizing the built environment is identifying key infrastructure dependencies that may exist. Some of these dependencies are obvious; others are not. This Guide Brief focuses on Step 2, understanding the built environment, and

NIST Ballistics Toolmark Research Database

December 5, 2016
Author(s)
Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Johannes A. Soons, Robert M. Thompson
The NIST Ballistics Toolmark Research Database (NBTRD) is an open-access research database of bullet and cartridge case toolmark data. The development of the database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice. The

Crowdsourcing to Develop Life-Saving Technologies

November 22, 2016
Author(s)
Tammi M. Marcoullier
The future of emergency services and saving more lives in disasters hinges on the success of technology that will be developed through crowdsourcing. Interoperability among first responder devices, Immersive Reality with VR/AR, and down-to-the-meter

Investigating Firebrand Accumulation over Various Scales

November 22, 2016
Author(s)
Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki
As structures are exposed to wind, stagnation planes are produced around structures. Using full-scale experiments, the authors demonstrated that firebrands may accumulate in these stagnation planes. In a subsequent full-scale study performed by the authors

Video Analytics at the Edge

October 28, 2016
Author(s)
John S. Garofolo
This is a slide for an invited panel talk at the First IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing on the need for research in edge computing and future standards related to video analytics in safety and security video network domains such as public safety.

Guide Brief 1 - Characterize the Population

September 30, 2016
Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief provides additional rationale and guidance regarding the first part of Step 2 in the Guide, “Characterize social functions and dependencies” which starts with “Characterize the population.” The intended audience is the social dimensions

2016 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting - Day 2

August 31, 2016
Author(s)
Tracy A. McElvaney, Dereck R. Orr, Jeremy E. Benson, Richard A. Rouil, Andrew Thiessen, Paul Roberts, John T. Beltz, Joshua M. Franklin, Harlin McEwen, Christopher J. Walton, Paul A. Grassi, Ellen L. Ryan, Donald L. Harriss, Mika Skarp, Wim Brouwer
The Public Safety Communications Research program held its latest PSBB Stakeholder Meeting on June 7-9 2016 in San Diego, CA. This three-day meeting brought together representatives from public safety, federal agencies, industry and academia to highlight

2016 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting - Day 3

August 31, 2016
Author(s)
Tracy A. McElvaney, Jeremy E. Benson, Richard A. Rouil, Andrew P. Thiessen, Paul Roberts, Steven Voran, John T. Beltz, Joshua M. Franklin, Harlin McEwen, Christopher J. Walton, Paul A. Grassi, Donald L. Harriss, Mika Skarp, Wim Brouwer
The Public Safety Communications Research program held its latest PSBB Stakeholder Meeting on June 7-9, 2016, in San Diego, CA. This three-day meeting brought together representatives from public safety, federal agencies, industry, and academia to

2016 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting - Day1

August 31, 2016
Author(s)
Tracy A. McElvaney, Dereck R. Orr, Jeremy E. Benson, Richard A. Rouil, Andrew P. Thiessen, Paul Roberts, Steven Voran, John T. Beltz, Joshua M. Franklin, Harlin McEwen, Christopher J. Walton, Paul A. Grassi, Donald L. Harriss, Mika Skarp, Wim Brouwer
The Public Safety Communications Research program held its latest PSBB Stakeholder Meeting on June 7-9 2016 in San Diego, CA. This three-day meeting brought together representatives from public safety, federal agencies, industry and academia to highlight

Usability and Security Considerations for Public Safety Mobile Authentication

July 27, 2016
Author(s)
Yee-Yin Choong, Joshua M. Franklin, Kristen Greene
There is a need for cybersecurity capabilities and features to protect the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN). However, cybersecurity requirements should not compromise the ability of first responders to complete their missions. In addition

Reliability-based structural performance indicators for structural members

June 2, 2016
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister, Michel Ghosn, Dan Frangopol, Mahendra Shah, Sophia Diniz, Bruce Ellingwood, Lance Manuel, Fabio Biondini, N. Catbas, A. Strauss, Z. Zhao
The implementation of reliability methods for designing new structures and assessing the safety and evaluating the performance of existing structures and infrastructure systems has gained widespread acceptance. Most importantly, reliability-based design

Risk-based decision making for sustainable and resilient infrastructure

June 2, 2016
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister, Zoubir Lounis
The development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems is a challenging task that involves a broad range of economic, social and environmental performance indicators, which need to be considered over the system life cycle. Conventional
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