Abstract

Geo-enabling Disaster Response and Emergency Management Solutions
Track: Disaster and Emergency Management
Authors: Vince Rosales, Rob Wolf, Chris Diller

Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) has utilized NC4's E-Sponder Incident Management Product to facilitate disaster response and recovery efforts in support of local governments for some time. Recently, the E-Sponder solution (based on SharePoint) was extended to include visualization using the ESRI Platform (Remember MAPIT?). The initial extension to E-Sponder whet the appetite for WEM (being a long time ArcGIS user), and WEM's enthusiasm encouraged NC4 to extend their GIS feature functionality to a greater extent while including location based services and geoprocessing. This decision coincided with the MAPIT platform maturation in becoming the ArcGIS Webpart for SharePoint with full access to ArcGIS features. This presentation will highlight the business value envisioned by WEM and NC4 through this extension and provide real examples of how their constituents are better served.