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Bookmark or Share- Emergency Management - Homeland SecurityDisasters start and end at the local level, and the emergency management community is experiencing a rapidly evolving threat landscape. Driven by this dynamic environment, S&T is using a collaborative, all-hazards approach to support resilience, leveraging new technologies and integrating existing research and development from academic and ...
- Innovative Uses of Social Media in Emergency Management - Homeland SecurityWithin emergency management, mashups are commonly used to map different types of incident-related data (e.g., the location of shelters, evacuation routes, and water mains), generate crisis maps, and improve situational awareness during a disaster.
- Common Operating Picture Emergency Responders - Homeland SecurityA common operation picture (COP) is a continuously updated overview of an incident compiled throughout an incident's life cycle from data shared between integrated communication, information management, and intelligence and information sharing systems. The goal of a COP is real-time situational awareness across all levels of incident management and across jurisdictions. Included reports ...
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - Homeland SecurityThe Federal Emergency Management Agency’s mission is simple - to help people before, during and after disasters. Floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and forest fires, whatever the disaster, FEMA leads the federal government’s response as part of a team of responders.
- Social Media Emergency Management Guidance Tool - Homeland Securitywith the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and public safety practitioners from the public safety community to develop the . Social Media Emergency Management (SMEM) Guidance Tool for emergency managers (EMs ) and public information officers (PIOs). WHAT IS THE SMEM GUIDANCE TOOL? The SMEM Guidance Tool is a free, online tool that provides
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