Case Studies

Emergency/Disaster Management | Computer-Aided Dispatch and Emergency Medical Services |
Homeland Security | Law Enforcement | Structural Fire and Wildfire Management

Emergency/Disaster Management

• Virginia Deploys Web-Based Emergency Mapping System
• MapAction Helps Millions of People
• The City of Quinte West Unifies Emergency Communications
• Emerald Isle's Coastal Contingency Plan
• When Every Second Counts—Yosemite uses GIS for coordinating search and rescue operations
• One Hundred Ways for Fending Off Hurricane Impacts
• City of Davenport Uses 3D Visualization to Prepare for Flooding
• Assessing Tornado Damage
• Tallahassee-Leon County GIS Rolls Out First Phase of Incident Management System
• GIS-Based Flood Mapping at FEMA
• Temblor Reports Gain Fast Turnaround
• Making Louisiana State University a Storm Disaster-Resistant School
• Take Advantage of New Floodplain Data
• Recovery Efforts in Post-Tsunami Indonesia
• New Vision for Relief Efforts
• Identifying Helicopter Landing Zones in Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Computer-Aided Dispatch and Emergency Medical Services

• Genesee County, NY 9-1-1 call center is interoperable
• How GIS Is Changing Loma Linda University Medical Center's View of the World
• Maximizing Time, Resources, and Money with Real-Time Vehicle Tracking and Intelligent Routing
• GIS Enables Groundbreaking E911 Application at Maui Police Department

Homeland Security

• Breaking Down Barriers
• Microsoft and ESRI’s Fusion Core Solution
• The Next Step for Agency GIS: Shared Services
• Fusion center approach could be effective in other areas
• Fusion Core Solution Will Boost Public Safety, Homeland Security Intelligence Efforts
• ArcGIS Software Scores Big for Super Bowl XLIII
• Updated Operations Center Helps U.S. DOI See Bigger Picture
• Indiana Department of Homeland Security Implements Disaster Response System
• GIS Forms Core of Bahrain's Geographic Security System
• City of Dover, Delaware, Deploys Groundbreaking GIS Application for NASCAR Events
• Monitoring Conditions and Making Decisions

Law Enforcement

• Determining Anchor Points for Sex Offenders Using GPS Data
• Eugene, Oregon, Police Improve Decision Making with GIS
• Predictive Modeling Becomes a Crime-Fighting Asset
• GIS Technology in Eugene: Piecing Data Together to Secure the Olympic Team Trials
• Probationers Monitored and Public Safety Improved with GIS
• GIS Gives Portland, Oregon, Police Bureau Improved Incident Tracking
• Intelligence-Led Policing Gives a Crime-Fighting Advantage
• United States Postal Service Fights Crime with GIS
• Police Department Mapping Success
• Columbia, South Carolina, Police Department Uses GIS for Improved Policing [PDF]

Structural Fire and Wildfire Management

• It's All About Streets
• Modeling and Mapping Public Safety Arrival Orders [PDF]
• Central Nervous System—The Orange County Fire Authority uses computer mapping to coordinate the activities of all parts of its organization
• Mobile GIS Aids Victoria Bushfires Search Operations
• North Las Vegas Fire Department Makes Most of Mapping
• Do It Yourself! Building a network dataset from local agency data [PDF]
• Advancing Public Safety GIS Locally and Nationally
• Convincing the Chief [PDF]
• Orange County Fire Authority Builds Advanced GIS Capability
• Fire Department Streamlines Data Access
• GIS Hero David Blankinship of Colorado Springs Fire
• Enterprise GIS Helped Agencies Battle California's Zaca Fire
• GIS Teams Map the Zaca Fire
• Priming the Pump [PDF]
• Déjà Vu
• For San Diego, California, Preparation Plays Paramount Role During Recent Wildfires
• Managing Volunteer Firefighter Response [PDF]
• Providing In-Vehicle Access to More than 3,500 Prefire Plans
• Firefighter Inspires New Mapping System to Help Assess Risks, Map Fires, and Allocate Resources

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