Emergency Management

Emergency managers leverage GIS technology to turn data into action, enhancing preparedness, response, and recovery to support communities during significant events.

How can GIS help your business areas?

  • Respond with Real-time Information

    Anticipate needs in rapidly changing conditions with real-time dashboards that enhance critical decision-making and emergency management effectiveness. GIS fosters shared situational awareness among response teams, stakeholders, and the public, ensuring coordinated efforts.

    Digital Transformation of Emergency Management with GIS

  • Build Resilience with Data-driven Insight

    Leverage the Geographic Approach to understand, identify, and strategize against natural hazards and human-caused threats. GIS highlights risk and vulnerability by combining critical infrastructure data, demographics data, and hazards, empowering proactive mitigation effort.

    Hazard Mitigation Planning

  • Coordinate and Collaborate Across Agencies

    Improve collaboration across federal, provincial, and local levels for response and recovery with GIS. It enhances communication with partners and decision-makers, ensuring critical information is shared efficiently, leading to better-informed decisions and improved safety.

    Oregon Department of Emergency Management Case Study

  • Reestablish Lifelines with Mobile Tools

    Conduct damage assessments, build a reporting database, and monitor debris removal with field data collection apps. GIS expedites response and recovery, monitors community lifelines, and keeps the public informed about recovery resources.

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Emergency Management Response

Emergency Management Response

Utilize real-time data for impact analysis and shared situational awareness to facilitate swift, informed decisions, enhanced response coordination, and keep the public informed.

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Damage Assessment

Damage Assessment

Streamline damage assessment. Esri’s solution speeds reporting, tracking, and sharing to support faster disaster recovery.

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Special Event Management

Special Event Management

Efficiently manage events, prepare plans, monitor safety, and conduct briefings with real-time data and mapping tools for swift, informed decisions.

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Disaster Response Program

Disaster Response Program

Esri’s Disaster Response Program delivers GIS tools, data, and support to help you assess, decide, and act fast when crisis exceeds your capacity.

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Additional Resources

  • Real-Time Emergency Management Operations

    This document explains how GIS and the Emergency Management Operations Solution help agencies plan and respond efficiently to emergencies.

    Download e-book

  • Digital Transformation of Emergency Management with GIS

    Understand how digital transformation boosts emergency management—enhancing connectivity, coordination, and speed for better response and recovery.

    Watch recording

  • Cloud Storage: The value of the Cloud in Infrastructure Emergency Management

    The value of the cloud in infrastructure emergency management.

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  • Training

    Looking for training that will take you in the right direction? We’ve put together this site to guide you in your learning journey.

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  • Sample Justification Language for an ArcGIS Investment Request

    How-to blog series: Sample justification language for an ArcGIS investment request

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