AGI Cymru/Emergency Planning Event - 21st October

08 September 2009, 10:57am

The role of geographic information in the delivery of emergency planning

How closely are your GIS and emergency planning functions integrated?
How many people are cut off in their houses due to a flood event?
What infrastructure lies within a risk cordon?

With the new emphasis placed on geographic information by the Pitt Report into the 2007 Summer flooding events the need for increased communication between emergency planners and GI managers is increasingly under focus.

Aimed at both communities the day will provide an overview of the roles responsibilities and potential each has to offer.

The first session will set the scene with introductory sessions designed to give attendees a base line of knowledge about each others work, after refreshments the focus will turn to actual examples of the information in use within Local government with specific reference to incident management. The afternoon session will look to other sources of information that are available for specific data needs before attendees will have the opportunity to work though a basic emergency planning scenario designed to allow participants to assess how well their GI and emergency planning functions are currently set up and provide an opportunity to share ideas for improvement.

This event builds on a pilot event run in the South Wales Local Resilience Forum area this spring. Feedback from that event suggests organisations who were able to send both an emergency planning and GIS officer gained the maximum benefit from the day.

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