Update on Version 1.1
NAPSG Foundation is pleased to release Version 1.1 of a guidance document for the public safety & GIS communities, titled "GIS Standard Operating Guidance for Multi-Agency Coordination Centers" (SOG Guidance). This latest version 1.1 is updated to include reference for where the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Interagency Geospatial Concept of Operations (GeoConOps) may serve as an additional resource to local, state, and tribal public safety agencies. NAPSG recommends that public safety agencies and their GIS/IT resources also review the DHS GeoConOps in addition to the NAPSG SOG Guidance when developing their own GIS Standard Operating Procedures. The DHS GeoConOps and the NAPSG SOG Guidance are available below in PDF format. If you need the NAPSG SOG Guidance in a word document (.doc) version, please send a request email to rharned@publicsafetygis.org and we will make it available to you.
Background on the NAPSG SOG Guidance
This Standard Operating Guidance was developed by a team of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialists and professionals, leaders in public safety operations & managements, and incident support subject matter experts. The document strives to serve as a template to support national GIS standards development for emergency response in Multi-Agency Coordination Centers.
This guidance document is intended to provide public safety agencies at all levels of government with a starting point in developing their agency's guidelines for coordinating GIS emergency response efforts - and with the larger goal of further contributing to enhanced situational awareness & decision making for fire, EMS, and other public safety disciplines. The initial version of this document (Version 1.1 - linked below as a PDF) is a living document that will be updated as more and more local agencies adopt GIS operating procedures. Version 1.1 was developed to specifically support procedures within a Multi-Agency Coordination Centers. It is NAPSG Foundation's intent to develop similar SOP guidance documents focused on GIS support for an Incident Command System and the National Incident Management System.
NAPSG Foundation is grateful to the many dedicated leaders in the public safety and GIS community that support this development of this guidance document. A substantial amount of the technical subject matter expertise was provided by Paul Hardwick and Tricia Toomey of the Homeland Security Regional Technology Center at the SDSU Research Foundation
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 DHS_Geospatial_CONOPS_v2.0-final_print_6_30_10d (2).pdf | 7582 Kb | 25/02/11 14:49 | |
| Standard-Op-Guidance-MACC-Version1.1-05-2011.pdf | 1357 Kb | 11/05/11 18:04 | |
| Standard-Op-Guidance-MACC-Version1.1-PDF.pdf | 1382 Kb | 23/02/11 16:25 |
