Emergency management professionals are responsible for assessing risks and hazards and identifying potential emergencies and disasters. Emergency operations personnel recommend appropriate prevention or mitigation strategies that can reduce the impact of potential emergencies. Large, complex emergencies often affect multiple departments or multiple agencies and require data to be collected and assembled from a variety of locations quickly under adverse conditions. Part of the Emergency Operations Center’s role is understanding the details of the emergency, ordering the required response resources, coordinating with adjoining agencies (federal, state, and local), and determining the immediate actions necessary to contain the incident.
Manage disasters and emergencies with GIS by
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Assessing the locations of risks and hazards in relation to populations, property, and natural resources
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Integrating data and understanding the scope of an emergency to manage an incident
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Recommending preventive and mitigating solutions
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Determining how and where scarce resources should be assigned
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Prioritizing for search and rescue tasks
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Identifying staging area locations, operational branches and divisions, and other important incident management needs
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Assessing the short- and long-term recovery operations
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