Emergency Management

Emergencies can impact all or any number of government departments or agencies and can escalate from local to national scope.

GIS tools allow decision makers to view and analyze appropriate combinations of spatial data for each of these activities.

• Emergency response
• Disaster readiness
• Disaster damage assessment
• Disaster relief distribution
• Flood zone mapping
• Rebuilding

Related Resources

• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• GIS for Homeland Security
• Focus on Homeland Security
  ArcUser, Winter 2003
• GIS for Law Enforcement
• GIS for Public Safety