Deploying Actionable Geospatial Assets for Emergency Management and First Response

Location is key to mitigating, understanding and responding to natural disasters and domestic threats to security. From wildfires and oil spills to preparation for terror attacks, all emergency management and response scenarios should rely on robust, highly accessible, portable and standardized geospatial assets so that key personnel have a common reference point for coordination and collaboration.

In this webinar, Talbot Brooks, a national expert in deploying geospatial technologies for public safety, homeland security, and disaster response, will provide insights such as:

* Lessons learned and best practices in deploying geospatial assets during crises such as Hurricane Katrina 2005, Haiti Earthquake 2010 and Chile Earthquake 2010
* The role of geospatial technologies, the National Grid and USGS assets in emergency management and disaster response
* How geospatial intelligence can be used in the field by first responders who are not trained in GIS or advanced map reading
* Current innovations in technology and process
* Recommendations for future steps to improve the use and availability of geospatial assets

Talbot Brooks is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Information Technologies at Delta State University in Mississippi, a GIT Branch Chief for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, and Deputy Chief of Bolivar County Volunteer Fire Department.