Session Description:
The Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia (EMSINA) have an annual workplan task to pry out the key learnings in the technology space, particularly around the use of location technologies and spatial information. Have we learnt from past disasters? How have emergency management organisations adapted their systems to the pressures of continuous emergencies? What are the new learnings in our rapidly expanding use of spatial technologies?
Spatial Information technologies comprise a range of disciplines which come together to provide valuable input across the Emergency Management sector. More commonly referred to as ‘mapping’, but definitely not just about making maps. Spatial Sciences are at the heart of dispatching, resource allocation, warnings, pre-incident planning, incident statistical reporting, fire & flood modelling, remote sensing, plume modelling, impact assessment, smart devices, machine learning and field mapping - all key decision support areas in emergency management.
Through full presentations, lightning talks and facilitated discussions, EMSINA will present examples of the use and the growing demands of Geospatial intelligence technologies as applied in within the emergency services organisations, Local/State/Federal Governments and also those used to feed public information demands. During this professional development opportunity, you will see presentations from our Emergency Service Organisations and Government from across Australia along with some of the major vendors of location technologies. We will hear about the latest applications and tools that drive data driven decision making, trendas and common national scale directions and most important we will focus on what the future holds in an ever-increasing need for Geospatial in modern digital solutions. This program is coordinated by the Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia (EMSINA).
