Focusing efforts to mitigate the impacts and protect against the complex threats and hazards in today's modern world requires a deeper understanding of the social, economic, and environmental systems around us. Emergency managers use geographic information system (GIS) technology with data-driven insights to better prepare and help their communities respond and recover from significant events.
Understand, identify, and build strategies that mitigate natural hazards and human-caused threats using the science of geography. Using GIS, areas of risk and vulnerability are highlighted by combining critical infrastructure, hazard, and demographics data into a single map.
Anticipate needs during rapidly changing conditions with real-time dashboards that aid critical decision-making and maximize the effectiveness of emergency management operations. GIS builds shared situational awareness across response teams, stakeholders, and the public.
Conduct damage assessments, build a reporting database, and monitor debris removal with field data collecting and reporting applications. Using GIS expedites response and recovery efforts, monitors the status of community lifelines, and helps you communicate recovery resources to the public.
A natural disaster can hit at any moment. For search and rescue teams, the first hours after the event are critical. The ability to gain situational awareness by gathering information quickly and efficiently is key to saving lives. Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) staff members explain how collected aerial imagery helped create vital GIS maps that visualized Hurricane Ian’s impact and guided emergency responders to find those in need of rescue faster than ever before.
The ever-expanding role of emergency managers requires systems and solutions that help agencies provide quick response to frequent and systemic threats and hazards. Esri's emergency management operations solutions provide a set of real-time, configurable apps designed to support your mission-critical decision-making. Maintain situational and operational awareness, quickly analyze the incident impact, assess the damage, deploy resources, and engage the public with GIS maps built to scale.
