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Applications and Equipment for Incident Support

Incident Support using GIS

Once the decision has been made to support the incident with automated mapping, there are several aspects that should be considered to ensure efficient and effective support. The top four questions that should be answered are:

1) Will the efficiency of the incident management be improved by using GIS?

2) Are "experienced" personnel available?

3) Is the appropriate spatial data available?

4) Is suitable Hardware and Software available?

If the answer is YES to number one the information on this page can help with the other aspects.

 

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Equipment for incident support

GIS tools for Incident Support

Draft GIST Handbook DRAFT ---(15 Megs, PDF format)

 

 
 

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