Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook

Description:

GIS technology has become the one unifying component that every community can use to plan for, respond to, and recover from, major disasters--whether these are natural events such as hurricanes, or the man-made destruction of terrorist attack. By giving responders and disaster managers a way to analyze each stage of a disaster visually and to synthesize complex information sets, GIS permits swifter decision-making and better communication. Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook is a hands-on guide for both emergency-operations and GIS managers, as well as for government decision-makers, on ways to best to implement GIS into disaster management.

The book takes readers through the five stages of that management--Identification and Planning, Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery--and shows how GIS processes can be incorporated into each. Using real-word examples from agencies across the country, the book offers practical insights on using GIS technology to bring efficiency and speed to life-saving work.

 

 

Table of Contents:

1  Identification and planning

2  Mitigation

3  Preparedness

4  Response

5  Recovery

Appendix A  Challenges for GIS in Emergency Preparedness and Response

Appendix B  Spatial data layers

Appendix C  Five-year general strategies matrix of the FIRESCOPE Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Information Technology Group (GISSIT)

描述：
GIS技術已成為每個社區都可以用來規劃、應對和恢復重大災害的統一組件，無論是自然事件如颶風，還是恐怖襲擊的人為破壞。通過為應急人員和災害管理者提供一種以視覺方式分析災害每個階段並綜合複雜信息集的方法，GIS可以實現更快的決策和更好的溝通。《應對災難：GIS手冊》是一本實用指南，針對應急運營和GIS管理人員以及政府決策者，介紹了如何將GIS最佳地應用於災害管理。

該書將讀者引導通過災害管理的五個階段-識別和規劃、緩解、準備、應對和恢復-並展示了如何在每個階段中融入GIS流程。通過使用全國各地機構的真實案例，本書提供了使用GIS技術為救生工作帶來效率和速度的實用見解。

目錄：
1. 識別和規劃
2. 緩解
3. 準備
4. 應對
5. 恢復
附錄A：應急準備和應對中的GIS挑戰
附錄B：空間數據圖層
附錄C：FIRESCOPE地理信息系統和空間信息技術小組（GISSIT）的五年總體策略矩陣