CATS for Emergency Response

Consequences Assessment Toolset (CATS) is a PC-based system for powerful, cost-effective disaster analysis.

Before Disaster Strikes

• Create realistic scenarios for training and planning.
• Create contingency plans with CATS comprehensive population and infrastructure data.

• Assess the affected population quickly and accurately.
• Track hurricane damage.
• Assess damage from earthquake, tidal surge, explosives, industrial agent release, or weapons of mass destruction.
• Reduce response timelines.
• Determine roadblock locations and exclusion zones for safe routing of responders and victims.

• Assess needs and locate resources for a sustained response.
• Obtain information for reporting, damage assessment, and lessons learned.
• Obtain support for remediation and compensation.

CATS works with ArcView and a wide range of georeferenced background map, population distribution, and infrastructure databases. CATS is easy to use and accepts custom databases to support user-specific needs.

Developed for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and FEMA, CATS is available to federal, state, and local government emergency response organizations in the United States.

Winner of the 1996 Ford Foundation Innovation in American Government Award