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GIS for Disaster Response For IAFC Leadership Summit November 4, 2005. Jennifer Schottke, ESRI And Dr. Robert Pierce, USGS. IAFC-ESRI GIS Grant Recipients. 2005 IAFC-ESRI Grant Recipients. Take Home Points re: GIS. GIS is layer centric geography is the “unique key”
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GIS for Disaster Response For IAFC Leadership Summit November 4, 2005 Jennifer Schottke, ESRI And Dr. Robert Pierce, USGS
Take Home Points re: GIS • GIS is layer centric • geography is the “unique key” • more than a map: its an information system
GIS Integrates All Types of Data Geography is a “key.” Basemaps Roads/Infrastructure Raster imagery Land use/Land cover Environment Weather information Vehicle locations Forming collections of data to create information and knowledge …
Drought And Flood Analysis
GIS For Situational Awareness • Integrates and manages these disparate, data types • Static base layers: political boundaries, roads • On-demand raster imagery • Real-time data: weather , vehicles, humans with GPS-enabled phones, devices- like electrical transformers. • Supports workflow intelligence models • complex geoprocessing • realtime global visualization tools • automated cartography • data publishing • Assimilates vast amounts of data into one common frame of reference providing situational awareness for • Better command decisions • Effective resource management, • Accurate information to the public.
GIS For the Gulf Dr. Robert Pierce US Geological Survey