Abstract
The Critical Ingredient, Data Availability for Emergency Management Track: Disaster Mangagement and Emergency Response Author(s): Albert Hill If chaos and destruction visit your jurisdiction, what can you do to assist those who rush to your aid? One of the most important steps you can take in the face of disaster is to safeguard and make your basic datasets available to those responders in standardized, well-documented and easy-to-provide formats. As a result of the relief efforts brought about by the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, GIS professionals are increasingly being made aware of how critical data availability is to both immediate and long-term recovery efforts. Furthermore, as GIS enters the IT mainstream, formal inclusion of GIS in a jurisdiction's Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) places additional burdens on GIS management outside the typical GIS realm. This presentation will discuss what steps even the smallest GIS operation can take to safeguard and protect its investments and to facilitate recovery operations. Albert Hill Volusia County Government Information Technology 119 W Indiana Ave Deland , FL 32720-4284 US Phone: 386 736 5973 Fax: 386 822 5728 E-mail: ahill@co.volusia.fl.us |
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