Business Geographic Application

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GIS for Disaster Response For IAFC Leadership
Summit November 4, 2005
Jennifer Schottke, ESRI And Dr. Robert Pierce,
USGS
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IAFC-ESRI GIS Grant Recipients
           
Fire Department Street Address City State Zip Pop
Ankeny Fire Department 120 NW Ash Drive Ankeny IA 50023 28,000
Anne Arundel County Fire Dept 8501 Veterans Hwy Millersville MD 21108 489,600
City of Orange Fire Department 300 East Chapman Orange CA 92866 140,000
City of Raleigh Fire Department PO Box 590, 310 West Martin Street, Suite 200 Raleigh NC 27602 208,000
City of SeaTac Fire Dept 2929 S 200th St SeaTac WA 98198 25,000
County of Albemarle Dept of Fire Rescue 460 Stagecoach Rd, Ste F Charlottesville VA 22902 79,000
Jackson County Fire District No. 3 8333 Agate Road White City OR 97503 5,400
Mount Laurel Fire Department 69 Elbo Lane Mount Laurel NJ 08054 10,000
Omaha Fire Dept 1516 Jackson St Omaha NE 68102 609,000
Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Civic Bldg, 200 Ross St, 5th Fl Pittsburgh PA 15219 335,000
St Tammany Fire District 12 115 Northpark Blvd Covington LA 70433 10,000
Sun Prairie Volunteer Fire Dept 135 N Bristol St Sun Prairie WI 53590 20,000
Unified Fire Authority 3380 S 900 West Salt Lake City UT 84119 350,000
City of Hartford Fire Department 275 Pearl Street Hartford CT 06103 122,000
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2005 IAFC-ESRI Grant Recipients
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Take Home Points re GIS

• GIS is layer centric
• geography is the unique key
• more than a map its an information system

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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
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Parcel Management
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Drought
And Flood Analysis
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Inundation Modeling
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Evacuation Routing
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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.

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GIS For the Gulf

• Dr. Robert Pierce
• US Geological Survey