Abstract

Employing GIS for Emergency Management – A User’s View
Track: Disaster and Emergency Management
Authors: John Holcomb

“This presentation will cover an Emergency Response Coordinator’s approach to GIS. We will demonstrate how, using freely available GIS feeds and software, we are able to simultaneously monitor locations across the United States for all natural hazards (floods, fires, storms, etc.), correlate a hazard to a facility and enable proactive emergency response. The participant will learn this technique and will receive links to the software and data used to take back to their organization.”