Disaster Preparedness & Response
IMPROVING COMMUNICATION & ACTION
In the face of what seems to be an ever-increasing number of natural disasters, we need ways to provide complete situational awareness – and quickly. Our staff has been involved with a number of disaster response GIS efforts over the years and we possess Incident Command System (ICS) training.
GIS for Disaster Services:
Assisted with schema and data formatting
Assisted with training materials for global digitizing team
Provided offline data management, merging, and resyncing to the application
Performed validation and general troubleshooting
Overcame obstacles between the web application and printing output
Similar geospatial web application solutions can be built for health monitoring and disease tracking