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| Definitionskos:definition | Disasters are geographic events and therefore, geospatial information, tools and applications have the potential to support the management of, and response to, disaster scenarios. However, the use of geospatial data varies significantly across disaster and emergency communities. This can often make it difficult to share information between different organizations, and sometimes even within the same organization, involved in disaster response. This could mean that not everyone involved will have the same situational awareness information. There are many reasons for why geospatial information is fully used and exploited, included a lack of awareness of what geospatial options are available, lack of geospatial technology and skills, lack of funding, etc. The Disaster Pilot User Guide aims to address some of these issues by providing a non-technical showcase of the workflows and tools developed by the Pilot participants demonstrating what opportunities there are for disaster and emergency management communities to use geospatial solutions in practice. For over 20 years, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been working on the challenges of information sharing for emergency and disaster planning, management, and response. In Disaster Pilot 23 (DP23) the aims were to: Develop flexible, scalable, timely and resilient information data workflows to support critical disaster management decisions, enabling stakeholder collaboration, and Provide applications and visualization tools to promote the wider understanding of how geospatial data can support emergency and disaster communities. As part of DP23, a trilogy of Guides were developed to improve knowledge and understanding of how geospatial data and tools and could support disaster and emergency communities. Alongside the User Guide is a Provider Guide giving all the detail technical details behind the work, and a companion Operational Capacity Guide describing the steps needed to develop geospatial readiness. The User Guide contains a summary of the work undertaken in DP23, and Disaster Pilot 21 (DP21), where participants have worked on disaster scenarios relating to: Droughts Wildland Fires Flooding Landslides Health & Earth Observation Data for Pandemic Response Case Studies have focused on the hazards of drought in Manitoba, Canada; wildland fires in western United States; flooding in the Red River basin, Canada; landslides and flooding in Peru; and Pandemic response in Louisiana, United States. The participants have developed various data flows, alongside tools to support the collection, discovery, or visualization of data to support disaster management and response. Annex A describes the tools and applications developed within the Pilots alongside the benefits these can offers. The Guide finishes with details of future possibilities, and where the Disaster Pilot initiative could focus next. Annexes B to E give descriptions of the data flows developed, including the aspects of disaster management or response the data flow relates to; together with the benefits it offers and the type of decisions it can support. This document is for first responders, emergency managers, decision-makers, and anyone interested in encouraging disaster and emergency communities to realize the value of geospatial data to save lives and limit damage. |
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| Broaderbroader | Public Engineering Report |
| http://purl.org/dc/terms/createdcreated | 2024-04-29 |
| Creatorcreator | Andrew Lavender, Samantha Lavender |
| seeAlsoseeAlso | https://docs.ogc.org/per/21-075r2.html |
| Statusstatus | valid |
| Notationnotation | 21-075r2 |
| Alternative LabelaltLabel | OGC Disaster Pilot: User Readiness Guide |
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| OGC document typedoctype | Public Engineering Report |