Success Stories

Learn how organizations benefit from the use of geographic analysis and GIS.

• Guarding Against Geohazards
• FEMA Receives Prestigious Making a Difference Award
• Social Media Maps a Volcano's Aftermath
• Providing Information as a Resource—Responding to Superstorm Sandy
• FEMA Weighs Value Of Geospatial Information Services
• FEMA seeks to make emergency data available in real time
• Unsung Flood Heroine Maps Out Innovative Crisis
• GIS-Assisted Disaster Relief in 2013 and Beyond
• Geoviewer Simplifies Italian Hazardous Incident Response
• Discovering and Mapping Natural Hazards with Lidar
• Hurricane Sandy: NJDEP GIS Response and Recovery
• FEMA releases new flood maps showing 35,000 more New York City, Westchester buildings at risk
• Can Geodesign Protect Us from Disasters?
• After the Storm – ESRI Maps Out the Future in the Cloud
• Painting a Geographical Picture of Complex Emergencies
• Six days to trim your list: What you and kids can learn about earthquakes?
• Mapping Tool for Sandy Relief Efforts Created Using Amazon Web Services
• Aerial Imagery Mission Provides Unique View of Sandy Damage
• How New York Tweeted During Hurricane Sandy
• The Demographics of Hurricane Sandy
• SRI LANKA: Government moves on disaster data-sharing
• GIS Technology Saves Lives in Hurricane Sandy
• Big Geographic Data-From Tokyo Retailers to Flood Zones
• Analyzing The Flood Of Data From Tropical Storms In Real-Time
• Locating Earthquake Victims, New GIS Tools, now in the Cloud
• Top Ten Most Damaging US Hurricanes of All Time
• Nanning City Gets Serious About Emergency Response
• Another Way of Looking at the Blackouts
• Out of Harm's Way
• D.C. storm 2012 damage widespread throughout region (Map)
• Disaster Apps
• Using GIS for disaster risk reduction
• Looking Up for Answers on the Ground
• Damage Control
• The Rivers Agency, Northern Ireland
• GIS to revolutionize flood insurance
• Crisis Mapping Climate Change, Conflict and Aid in Africa
• Victims of storms turn to social media sites
• New Information Channel
• Answering Emergency Management Information Needs
• Sim Disaster—A Better Approach to Disaster Consequence Management
• Before and After the Storm
• Crisis Mapping and Disaster Risk Reduction
• Esri Assists Thailand Flood Response
• Russ Johnson Talks Esri and All Things GIS
• Emergency Response 2.0
• Disaster Decision Support System
• How Disaster Ready Are You?
• How Do You Warn 19 Million People at the Drop of a Hat?
• FCC, FEMA offer new tech tips for emergencies
• Engaging Citizens the Right Way: Government Uses Twitter During Hurricane Irene
• Hurricane, Earthquake Show Utility of Social Media
• Hurricane Irene Stirring Up Social Media
• Map Tracks Irene With Innovative Combination of Official Data and Social Media Input
• Mobile devices save lives in emergencies
• GIS app gives first responders in Georgia a moving picture
• Cloud GIS—Fast reliable support for disaster response
• Buncombe County Creates Multi-Hazard Risk Tool
• Social media map plots a Japan beyond geography
• Five U.S. nuclear reactors in earthquake zones
• AUDIO: Maps of Japan Have Changed
• Location Apps Popular in Japan Quake’s Wake
• Miami-Dade County Harnesses GIS Data
• Mapping the devastation across Japan
• Bird’s Eye View
• FEMA chief taps social media's potential for aiding disaster response
• Visualizing the Flood Crisis in Queensland with Real-Time Citizen Reports
• Social Data and Geospatial Mapping Join the Crisis Response Toolset
• The Future of GIS Mapping for Emergency Management
• Simplifying Situational Awareness
• GIS-ing Flood Data
• Heading Off Disaster, One Tweet at a Time
• Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Prompts Debate on NIMS, Unified Response
• Harnessing the Power of Social Media During a Disaster
• Beverly Hills, Calif., Goes Virtual to Protect Against Real Disasters
• Mexico City’s Earthquake Drill Shares Responsibility with Citizens
• Geospatial Responses to Disasters: The Role of Cyberspace
• Users Respond to Oil Spill Disaster
• Manitoba Responds to Red River Flood with Common Operating Picture
• Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps are GIS Ready
• Getting in Touch with Volunteered Geographic Information
• A Social Map of the Gulf Oil Spill
• Ushahidi and Esri Team to Improve Crisis Mapping Services
• Road Status and Damage Assessment Tool Aids Emergency Operations in New York
• Getting Answers Quickly – Hydrologic Analysis and 3D GIS Improve Flood Response
• Virtual USA Emergency Initiative
• Making More Informed Decisions
• Recovering from Katrina [PDF]
• Virginia Deploys Web-Based Emergency Mapping System