Emergency Response & Public Safety

With TerraGo's suite of geospatial collaboration software solutions, GIS leaders can more rapidly disseminate up-to-the-minute geospatial intelligence to mobile/field workers, whether that is emergency workers, first responders, and public safety officials. 

When first responders, such as the City of Dallas police officers or state of California wildfire fighters, are equipped with portable, interactive geospatial intelligence, they are not only able to respond faster and make better decisions in the field, but also rapidly collect and send important information back to the operations team for planning and analysis.

Download our Emergency Management and Response overview.

How it Works:

GIS experts leverage TerraGo's Publisher software to take complex maps and images and publish a highly portable, interactive and geo-referenced file called a GeoPDF. These GeoPDFs can be combined with each other or with other enterprise data into digital mapbooks with TerraGo Composer. Mapbooks make it easy for mobile/field workers to access and navigate across an area of interest for greater on-the-ground intelligence and situational awareness.

Workers can either download the GeoPDF files covering their area or can receive dynamically updated files on a handheld device. Fully equipped mobile field workers need only know how to open a PDF file and use a few simple tools from the TerraGo Toolbar, a free extension to Adobe Reader, to begin collecting field intelligence on the GeoPDF file itself. This data payload, also known as the TerraGo Collaboration Payload, can then be easily sent to peers in the field or directly back to GIS headquarters for instantly sharing field intelligence with operations/command officials.