@article{e6761e813f144f4fbafd2f5f450cd075,
title = "Numerical evaluation of effect of using UTM grid maps on emergency response performance -A case of information-Processing Training at an Emergency Operation Center in Tagajo City, Miyagi Prefecture",
abstract = "It is qualitatively considered that emergency information processing by using UTM grids is effective in generating COP (Common Operational Pictures). Here, we conducted a numerical evaluation based on emergency information-processing training to examine the efficiency of the use of UTM grid maps by staff at the Tagajo City Government office. The results of the demonstration experiment were as follows: 1) The time required for information propagation and mapping with UTM coordinates was less than that with address text consisting of area name and block number. 2) There was no measurable difference in subjective estimates of the training performance of participants with or without the use of UTM grids. 3) Fear of real emergency responses decreased among training participants using UTM grids. 4) Many of the negative free answers on a questionnaire evaluation of participants involved requests regarding the reliability and operability of UTM tools.",
keywords = "Common operational picture (COP), Emergency response training, Geo-information, Information processing, Utm grid",
author = "Shosuke Sato and Rui Nouchi and Fumihiko Imamura",
note = "Funding Information: This study was conducted with the help of staff of the Tagajo City Government (especially of the Traffic and Disaster Prevention Section of the General Affairs Department) and members of the 22nd Infantry Regiment of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force in planning and implementing the training and in answering the questionnaire survey. Staff of Epson Sales Japan Corporation and the Tohoku Branch of Koyo Lease Co., Ltd. have been a great help in planning the training and in leasing tools for the UTM grid system. The above-mentioned members of these organizations were not involved in the data analysis and writing of the paper. Technical Assistants Sanae AMITA and Satsuki GOTO of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, have helped us to prepare and organize materials. We thank all of those mentioned above. This research was funded partly by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)), titled, ?Construction of an Effective Operational Picture Support Model for Emergency Responses that Makes Use of Enormous Amounts of Text Data? (Principal Investigator: Shosuke SATO). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.",
year = "2016",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1587/transfun.e99.a.1560",
language = "English",
volume = "E99A",
pages = "1560--1566",
journal = "IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences",
issn = "0916-8508",
publisher = "Maruzen Co., Ltd/Maruzen Kabushikikaisha",
number = "8",
}