Webinar: GIS for Search and Rescue

Webinar Summary:

Geographic Information System mapping gives first responders a powerful suite of tools to organize search grids, track evidence in real time, and find citizens stranded in wilderness and urban environments. Learn how to effectively utilize this tech in the field, when seconds matter most.

SPEAKERS:

Jared Doke, Program Manager for the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation

Jon Pedder, GIS Senior Solutions Engineer at Esri

Kenneth Busby, GIS Coordinator for the Lee County Commission in Opelika, Alabama

Moderator: Jennifer Collins, Founder and CEO of Equipped

Additional Resources:

• For more detail on the case of the missing girl in northern Alabama, read Esri’s case study on the search and rescue operation.

• For a deeper dive into key resources Esri provides for SAR, read their recommendations on preparing for SAR incidents and check out their Search and Rescue GIS Blog.

• The NAPSG Foundation recently hosted a webinar on their response to the Champlain Tower collapse in Surfside (FL), Hurricane Ida, and the Quad-State Tornadoes, with Jared Doke moderating. It includes a high degree of detail about GIS use in those operations.

• Here’s a link to general information about SARCOP.

• For an in-depth conversation about the recent GIS Association of Alabama North Region training exercise, read our interview with Keith Conville, North Regional Director of the GIS Association of Alabama.