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- Disaster Planning And Recovery: Expecting The Unexpected
- Every company should tailor an Emergency Management Plan EMP to meet its specific needs. Planning allows one to make crucial decisions when the judgment is clear. In fact, a farsighted EMP might even include how to turn a disaster into an opportunity. No single plan will fit all businesses. A...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Enhancing Short-term Responses with Larger-scale Perspectives
- Our tools and techniques for hazard assessment and disaster management come into question when we consider the paradox of concurrent and prodigious increases in property losses as well as in research related to natural hazards. In view of this developing paradox, the call for an International System Model in Emergency...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Weathering The Strom
- From the executive summary: ‘Experts suggest that disaster recovery is the restoration of computing and telecommunications services. Contingency or continuity planning are the procedures that business functions follow to keep going until IT facilities are recovered. An overall business continuity program sits on three legs: disaster recovery programs, continuity planning...
- Case studies 2000-10-15
- The Construction Industry And Emergency Management: Towards An Integrated Strategic Framework
- Although most emergency events are not entirely unexpected and therefore can, to varying degrees, be mitigated for, the construction industry in the UK does not appear to play a sufficiently integrated role in emergency management. This paper reports on research that is developing a knowledge database and decision support framework...
- White papers 2006-05-11
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- Perceptive Informatics Introduces New Randomization and Trial Supply Management Reporting for Improved Data Access and Decision-Making
- BOSTON, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Perceptive Informatics, the industry's leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation , today announced that it has introduced a new reporting solution as part of its ClinPhone Randomization and Trial Supply Management RTSM technologies, which offer validated randomization...
- Research articles 2009-06-18
- House Passes FEMA Spending Measure.(Federal Emergency Management Admin. funding)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- On July 30, 2001, the House of Representatives approved the Fiscal Year 2002 VA-HUD and Independent Agencies Appropriations bill (HR 2620), which provides funding for the nation's emergency management programs. The House VA-HUD subcommittee, chaired by Rep. James T. Walsh (R-N.Y.), restored much of the funding...
- Research articles 2001-08-06
- HiQ International AB wins commission from Swedish Emergency Management Agency
- TELECOMWORLDWIRE-20 October 2005-HiQ International AB wins commission from Swedish Emergency Management AgencyC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Swedish IT and management consulting group HiQ International AB said on Thursday (20 October) that it had been commissioned by the Swedish Emergency Management Agency SEMA to assist with the specification, procurement...
- Research articles 2005-10-20
- HiQ International AB wins commission from Swedish Emergency Management Agency
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-20 October 2005-HiQ International AB wins commission from Swedish Emergency Management AgencyC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Swedish IT and management consulting group HiQ International AB said on Thursday (20 October) that it had been commissioned by the Swedish Emergency Management Agency SEMA to assist with the...
- Research articles 2005-10-20
- The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Support Homeland Security: Recommendations for Emergency Management and Bioterrorism Response in Nebraska
- Emergency management combines planning, preparation, and the optimum resources to mitigate and respond to an event. Good emergency management requires information that is accurate, current, timely, and quickly analyzed. This article shows how GIS technology provides the tools for displaying and analyzing spatial data in order to answer questions based...
- White papers 2002-11-09
- Audit of Head Injury Management in Accident and Emergency at Two Hospitals: Implications for NICE CT Guidelines
- This white paper study audits the process of the management of patients with head injury presenting at Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments and examines the impact upon resources of introducing NICE guidelines for eligibility of a CT scan. The paper also reveals that the majority of patients who present with...
- White papers 2004-05-03
- Softscape Launches New Rapid Response Emergency Management System; Integrated Web-Based Platform Used by Government Agencies to Manage Both Citizens & Agency Workers to Ensure Disaster Victims Receive Rapid Assistance
- WAYLAND, Mass. -- Softscape, the industry pioneer in intelligent people management, today announced its new Softscape CaseOneTM for Rapid Response Emergency Management. Softscape's solution supports Homeland Security initiatives by enabling government agencies and first response service providers to track and manage vital information in order to prepare for and expedite...
- Research articles 2005-11-14
- OGC spotlights hazard mapping, critical infrastructure. (Government Connection).(Open GIS Consortium, Federal Emergency Management Agency)
- Wayland, Mass.-based Open GIS Consortium Inc. OGC and its industry partners have been working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA to develop a technology framework for sharing geographic data related to natural hazards. OGC's FEMA-sponsored initiative, called the Multi-Hazard Mapping Initiative...
- Research articles 2002-08-01
- Large-format imagery enhances LIDAR accuracy: processing digital orthoimagery with LIDAR data helped one water management district in the state of Florida to create accurate, high-resolution digital terrain models.(Image Processing)(Cover story)
- When the Southwest Florida Water Management District SWFWMD teamed with Polk County's property appraiser to map more than 2,000 square miles of land, project specifications could not have been more stringent. The key deliverables--orthoimagery and digital terrain models DTMs--had to meet the exacting accuracy requirements dictated...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Supporting the Homeland Security Information Infrastructure With Web-Based Integration, Collaboration, Data Management, and Security Solutions
- Information sharing and systems are an integral part of the National Strategy for Homeland Security. The Strategy aligns and focuses homeland security functions into six critical mission areas including: intelligence and warning; border and transportation security; domestic counterterrorism; protecting critical infrastructure and key assets; defending against catastrophic threats; and emergency...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- In Case of Emergency, Please Use Twitter
- The Safe America Foundation , a national safety group working with the U.S. government, announced yesterday that text messaging, social networking sites, and Twitter could help families stay in touch in the wake of a disaster. Although Twitter hasn't always been known for its stability, in...
- News items 2009-09-02
- Data storm: FEMA project demonstrates the case for CD-ROM. (Delivery).
- WHEN THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY Management Agency FEMA began work on a project to centralize hurricane disaster information for the public and for other government agencies, it chose CD-ROM as the distribution medium for all the usual reasons: storage c WHEN THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY Management Agency FEMA...
- Research articles 2003-03-01
- Emergency agency to use military data networks
- Homeland Security Secure communications offers flexibility, information sharing. Civilian disaster response personnel soon will employ secure electronic messaging to communicate with U.S. government agencies and military services. The mobile system enables emergency management personnel to contact and coordinate operations quickly with other federal...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- GIS Applications for Oil Spill Prevention and Response in California
- GIS applications include resource assessment, contingency planning, data integration, and analysis. GIS technology is imbedded in oil spill prevention and response in California. Initially used for biological resource assessment GIS has proven to be an excellent data management and organizational tool that is now widely utilized for drills, exercises, contingency...
- White papers
- Intrado and PDAger Announce Memorandum of Understanding for China Joint Venture; Companies to Collaborate on Enhanced Emergency Communications Solutions for the China Market
- LONGMONT, Colo. -- Intrado Inc. (NASDAQ: TRDO), a global provider of integrated data and telecommunications solutions, and PDAger XieJin Technology Development Co., Ltd., a provider of mobility services and wireless emergency call solutions, today announced a memorandum of understanding regarding the companies' intent to form a joint venture focused on...
- Research articles 2005-06-30
- Intermap Donates Gulf Coast Topographic Data to FEMA for Katrina Rebuilding Effort.
- DENVER, COLORADO, Sep 20, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Intermap Technologies (TSX:IMP), announced today that it has provided the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA and the United DENVER, COLORADO, Sep 20, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Intermap Technologies...
- Research articles 2005-09-20
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