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GIS is an essential technology for all phases of emergency management: preparation, mitigation, response, and recovery. Find out how GIS provides a foundation for comprehensive emergency management.
To prepare for and mitigate emergencies, GIS can map and model potential disasters to help visualize critical vulnerabilities and damage consequences. As rebuilding begins, GIS aids local, state, and federal agencies with technology that supports collaboration between multiple agencies.
Field data captured with mobile GIS provides the ability to add updates from remote locations for more efficient incident management. It also supplies rapid damage assessment and more accurate recovery operations.
GIS provides a foundation for meeting disaster and emergency management mission requirements. It enables staff to more effectively carry out all types of tasks for every kind of emergency.
GIS is the most complete information system for analyzing, modeling, and displaying community vulnerability. When hazard locations can be viewed along with critical infrastructure, critical values at highest risk become apparent. Models can be processed to determine potential impacts and appropriate mitigation requirements. When events occur, response preparedness is more comprehensive. The basic foundation of developing an emergency management program is the analysis of risks and hazards to determine values at risk and operations necessary to reduce exposure, respond effectively, and recover quickly.
To achieve comprehensive preparedness, a great deal of information must be gathered and maintained in advance of an event. ArcGIS is a flexible information platform that enables full integration with other information systems.
ArcGIS is a standards-based and provides an extendable architecture for true interoperability. Accurate cataloging of GIS data and services, combined with your organization's existing investments, gives you an edge for turning raw data into useful information.
Getting accurate information from field operations back to the command center can be a difficult challenge. Mobile GIS gives you the advantage. Field crews can easily capture data and have it sent back for incorporation in the common operating picture.
Commanders get a more accurate and dynamic understanding of conditions on the ground. New data can be sent to field teams so they have the best information possible for staying safe and protecting lives.
Whether it's response or recovery, mobile GIS gives you the capability you need for getting the right information, wherever it may be.
Situational awareness is the corner stone of emergency and disaster management. As an emergency unfolds, it is paramount to an effective response to understand the current circumstances and to monitor events as they dynamically unfold over time. You need to know what's happening and where, and you have to be able to see it in real time.
GIS aids in quickly establishing full situational awareness by linking people, processes, and information together using geography. It provides the map interface into getting a handle on an emergency and nimbly adjusting to change.
