GITA and PTI's Geospatial Systems That Support Emergency and Disaster Operations: A Case Study Guide for Local Government and Utility First Responders
How GIS Aids Local Government and First Responders in Crises
A new guide illustrates how local government and utility first responders are using geospatial information in large-scale emergencies.
Published by PTI and the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA), Geospatial Systems That Support Emergency and Disaster Operations: A Case Study Guide for Local Government and Utility First Responders contains case studies from nine local governments that highlight how geospatial-based systems and data allow first responders to easily and reliably access critical information pre-incident, on-route and on-scene, and:
How these systems are used to rapidly access information in central databases, or from a variety of remote sensing systems for transmission to the field in support of emergency operations;
How these systems support the collection of information by first responders at the incident scene in ways that allow it to be rapidly transmitted to operations centers for assembly, analysis and distribution to the response community, as well as post-event analysis; and
How support systems permit first responders from different organizations to stay in touch with one another and to coordinate their field activities.
