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By Brian Tomaszewski

Geographic info platforms (GIS) supply crucial catastrophe administration determination aid and analytical services. As such, place of origin safety execs might drastically make the most of an interdisciplinary realizing of GIS and the way GIS pertains to catastrophe administration, coverage, and perform. Assuming no earlier wisdom in GIS and/or catastrophe administration, Geographic details platforms (GIS) for catastrophe Management publications readers during the fundamentals of GIS because it applies to catastrophe administration practice.

Using a hands-on technique grounded in proper GIS and catastrophe administration concept and perform, this textbook offers insurance of the fundamentals of GIS. It examines what GIS can and can’t do, GIS facts codecs (vector, raster, imagery), and easy GIS features, together with research, map production/cartography, and knowledge modeling. It provides a chain of real-life case stories that illustrate the GIS strategies mentioned in every one bankruptcy. those case stories provide readers with an figuring out of the applicability of GIS to the total catastrophe administration cycle.

Providing equivalent therapy to every catastrophe administration cycle part, the booklet provides catastrophe administration practitioners and scholars with assurance of the newest advancements in GIS for catastrophe administration and rising tendencies. It takes a learning-by-examples method of support readers observe what they've got realized from the examples and catastrophe administration situations to their particular situations.

The booklet illustrates how GIS know-how might help catastrophe administration execs, public coverage makers, and decision-makers on the city, county, country, federal, and overseas degrees. delivering software-neutral most sensible practices, this e-book is appropriate to be used in undergraduate- or graduate-level catastrophe administration classes. providing broad occupation suggestion on GIS for catastrophe administration from operating pros, the e-book additionally contains a GIS for catastrophe administration examine schedule and concepts for staying present within the field.

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