Following Hurricane Katrina’s impact on the heavily petroleum-industrialized coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, the resources of the NOAA Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) were quickly deployed to that region at the request of the U.S. Coast Guard. OR&R is the primary federal agency that supplies technical and scientific support for oil spills to the U.S. Coast Guard. A true unified command arose in Mobile, Alabama, to deal with pollution response activities. This organization was uniquely successful because it held data management and presentation as critical objectives to ensure effective command, control, and status management of the situation. GIS played a pivotal role in that success. Multiple federal agencies (USEPA, USCG, NOAA) with different ways of managing information worked together to merge their information onto a single constantly updated map. This presentation will focus on lessons learned.
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GIS Weekly Magazine
Susan Smith
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Look for the next issue of GIS Weekly Magazine on May 28, 2012.
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