Re: EM Standards List

Don -

A short (4 page) summary can be downloaded from 
http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/successful_response_final.pdf

and the entire report can be viewed for free (but not downloadable for free) 
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=quS0xwXDTNEC&dq=successful+response+starts+with+a+map&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=3q5tXHH48_&sig=XPqZ-a4WgTXaea2bojtZ7v9WFus#PPA11,M1

or for sale from http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11793

Regards

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Cameron" <donc@internode.on.net>
To: "'Carl Reed'" <creed@opengeospatial.org>; "'Gavin Treadgold'" 
<gt@kestrel.co.nz>; "'public-xg-eiif'" <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:15 AM
Subject: RE: EM Standards List


>> One of the 12 major recommendations from the US Academy Report
>> "Successful Response Starts with a Map" was to break down the
>> communication barriers between the EM, GIS, and IT communities
>> and to enhance EM training of GIS professionals that work in
>> EOCs and so forth
>
> Hi Carl,
>
> Is the US Academy Report available online? - it seems to include excellent
> recommendations. Attached for interest (and in support of Carls comments) 
> is
> a small composite of a satellite image, CAD output and manually drawn
> exclusion zone for an evacuation I am coordinating tomorrow. This 
> particular
> evac is small and happening in a relatively unpopulated area (only a few 
> sq
> kilometres), but still demonstrative of maping systems being used from the
> outset of disaster pre-planning and prevention right through to response,
> mitigation, impact recovery and rebuilding. In this case the mapping
> function is used in support of our other deployed EM tools (seismic
> monitoring, evacuation alarms, personnel tracking systems, PPE, comms and
> protocols, ICS procedures and structures etc. etc.).
>
> I guess it's also demonstrative of how EM is no longer limited to govt
> emergency response agencies. If the last decade was the decade of building
> business continuity through IT systems and backups; this decade is surely
> that of building business continuity through implementation of 
> best-practice
> emergency planning and management (mostly courtesy of the events 
> surrounding
> 911 and the tsunami, although in truth strongly reminiscent of the '70's
> cold war that saw IBM in Sydney construct an atomic bomb-proof shelter for
> it's mainframes, so IBM Au could take over from IBM US when the US was
> inevitably bombed by Russia!). Response agency-trained EM personnel 
> nowadays
> need only look in the positions vacant columns of local newspapers to find
> an array of corporate positions on offer, something unheard of a few years
> ago. This fortunately has brought a whole new sphere of financing, support
> and professionalism to the EM sector. In my view, welcome additions 
> although
> the impact on this project should not be understated. Corporate interests
> (national and global) also have a strong vested interest in Emergency
> Management systems and compatibilities.
>
> Kind regards,
> Don Cameron
>

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