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Emergency Modeling Tools Technological Disasters CATS is a powerful, cost-effective disaster analysis system. Natural Disasters FEMA's HAZUS-MH gives you a GIS methodology and software to help model natural hazards. Situational Awareness ESRI Situational Awareness is a ready-to-operate hardware, software, and data solution.

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GIS is an essential technology for all phases of emergency management [PDF]: preparation, mitigation, response, and recovery. Find out how GIS provides a foundation for comprehensive emergency management. [PDF]

To prepare for and mitigate emergencies, GIS can map and model potential emergencies to help visualize critical vulnerabilities and damage consequences. As rebuilding begins, GIS aids local, state, and federal agencies with technology that supports collaboration between multiple agencies.

GIS Enhances Situational Awareness

During response and recovery, situational awareness [PDF] is critical. GIS provides actionable information through a real-time common operational picture that integrates weather and traffic feeds with the necessary local data to map the emergency, evaluate damage, and identify impacts.

Field data captured with mobile GIS [PDF] completes this operational picture.

Success Stories

Learn how disaster management organizations benefit from the use of geographic analysis and GIS.

• Tallahassee-Leon County GIS Rolls Out First Phase of Incident Management System
• GIS-Based Flood Mapping at FEMA

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