Successful Response Starts with a Map

Successful ResponseSuccessful Response Starts with a Map:
Improving Geospatial Support for Disaster Management

Committee on Planning for Catastrophe:
A Blueprint for Improving Geospatial Data, Tools, and Infrastructure
Mapping Science Committee, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council

Geospatial data describe the locations of things on the Earth’s surface, and geospatial tools manipulate such data to create useful products.

This report is about the maps that are an essential part of search-and-rescue operations, about the GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers that allow first responders to locate damaged buildings or injured residents, about images that are captured from aircraft to provide the first comprehensive picture of an event’s impact, about road maps that form the basis of evacuation planning, and about all of the other information connected to a location that can be used in emergency management.

ISBN: 0-309-66624-4, 198 pages (2007)   Read online

08-24-2007     Send a link     Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)   Public Safety Technology     Print version

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