Abstract
GIS and Crisis Response: 33 Disasters and Counting
Track: Data Fusion
Author
To prepare for his role in Ladder 49, Joaquin Phoenix trained with Baltimore City Fire Department for 6 months, graduated from their fire academy, and then rode – as a working firefighter - with Engine 33 for 6 months. As geospatial professionals supporting emergency/crisis response, we are asking the public and response communities to risk their lives on our products and services. Like Joaquin Phoenix, how do we adequately prepare to do so? This session will emphasize basic tenets of crisis/emergency response (standardization, safety, preparedness), suggestions about what geospatial professionals need to know to support an emergency/disaster, and how geospatial products and services may be put into play effectively. Specific topics include assisting responders with locating, responding to, and maintaining accountability at an incident, how spatial technologies fit into incident command and control organizational structures, and some “hidden” challenges to implementing obvious solutions.
Talbot Brooks
DSU GIS Center
PO Box 3325
Cleveland, Mississippi 38733
United States
Phone: 662-846-4520
E-mail: tbrooks@deltastate.edu