Emergency Management (20/10/2009) Dr. Ahmad BinTouq URL: GEO 440: GIS for Urban & Regional Planning

Overview What is Emergency management? Main task: scenario simulation, what if… Examples such as: – floods –Traffic hazardous accidents major highways/motorways –public buses accidents –Etc…

What is it Emergency response (disaster management) refer to some inherent analytical features in most GIS, including straightforward functions such as ‘address coding’ Or more complex features: thiessen-polygon (voronoi-diagram) representation. newest approach in urban planning and development, spatial routine implemented in voroni diagrams

Case study, Yucca Mountain, Nevada Location/allocation discussion Shows fire stations locations, hazardous materials site and police station Predicting the response time from these station to emergency i

GIS for Emergencies Collection of data Data aggregated according to sites On the fly data analysis

GIS 3D GIS Time and third dimension of space Used by police for shooting from high buildings Conversation between data types and sources Live data feed, location of people and things Live cams on urban areas Eyes and ears of the operation room on sites

Exercise How to integrate GIS and emergency management? Give examples What is most important factor in emergency management ?