Bringing Emergency Management into the 21st Century Author: Marta Dent 2801 W Durango St Phone: (602)506-8612
Historically the Maricopa County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has operated using large wall display maps, pushpins, magnetic tags, white boards, and a cacophony of instructions shouted across the room. As a joint effort, several County departments got together to automate and incorporate GIS into the EOC business process to improve response time, quality and quantity of data being used, and tracking and reporting of events. |