NAPSG Foundation makes available a suite of guidelines and templates for coordinating and implementing the use of data, technology, and GIS by public safety nationwide. These tools are intended to serve as a shared foundation, encouraging improved communication and collaboration among GIS and other emergency management staff preparing for and responding to incidents.
Provided below are several resources that NAPSG Foundation has developed in partnership with local, state, and federal public safety stakeholders to support the use of advanced technology and interoperability in mutual aid technology systems.
1. Guidance on Resource 
Management Dashboards
2. Mutual Aid Information
Requirements
3. Guidance on Information Sharing Standards
Implementation Guidance: Information Sharing Standards for Crisis Management and Mutual Aid Technology (2021) — v3 has broken the guidance into two separate documents:
4. National Mutual Aid Technology Exercises (NMATE)
2021
2019
2017
5. National Resource Management Summit
6. Resource Management Planning Technology and Data
This suite of guidelines provides first responders and decision-makers with a standardized framework for implementing Core Operational Information within decision support solutions. These guidelines bring together key decision points aligned with essential elements of information and data requirements.
1. National Flood Preparedness Guideline (2022)
2. First Responder Core Operational
Information Guideline (2018)
3. After-Action Reports from Flood Preparedness Pilots (2018)
GIS Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Templates
Provided here is a set of template SOPs for achieving agency-level and inter-agency consistency in geospatial coordination for emergency response. Provided below is a list of the SOP templates with links to each:
Incident-Specific SOP Template Supplements provide users with further standard operating procedures necessary for responding to specific types of incidents:
Hurricane Geospatial Game Plan
Agencies are encouraged to modify content in the templates to accommodate local and regional-specific details. How these guidelines are implemented will depend on the organization and the level of government responding to the incident. In the future, NAPSG will be enhancing each template to provide additional tools that aid agency-level implementation. Stay tuned!
Still Need Assistance with Public Safety Geospatial SOPs?
NAPSG also offers fee-for-service GIS SOP Technical Assistance for public safety agencies in need of support in the development and implementation of GIS SOPs. For more information, contact services@publicsafetygis.org or by phone at 202-895-1711.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. All of the resources linked above are available for commercial use within the parameters of this license.
Goal: Assist the emergency management/public safety community in quickly understanding: which indices are available the data and methodologies behind them their relevance for use in preparedness and response Access the Guidance One-Pager on the Guidance Understanding a community’s risk, resilience, and vulnerability is vital for effective disaster management and resource planning. In recent years, there
Webinar Recording Slide Deck Feedback Questionnaire On March 31st, 2020, NAPSG Foundation hosted a virtual PrepTech Talk titled “Intelligence-Driven Resource Management & Mutual Aid Planning,” which introduced a new risk analysis-based resource planning tool that supports the following: Equips leaders and resource planners with critical information to make better resource management decisions during preparedness and
March 31, 2020 NAPSG Foundation is pleased to announce that the Resource Management Planning Tool (RMPT) has been launched publicly and is available to the community at no cost. The Resource Management Planning Tool was launched to provide all local agencies with a basic capability for intelligence-driven resource management planning. RMPT was developed based on
NAPSG Foundation is pleased to share two new technology-focused toolkits that were recently launched and are available to the community today, as a part of NAPSG’s Safe & Resilient Toolkit. Each of the toolkits provides public safety leaders, emergency managers, and first responders with consistent guidance and resources for building and enabling the use of
This is an interactive gallery that allows GIS Staff to quickly search NAPSG Foundation resources hosted in ArcGIS Online.
January 1, 2018 The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation released the first version of the Resource Management Dashboard Guidance. The purpose of this Guidance is to provide a consistent framework and functional specifications for developing and using location-enabled dashboard technology to support resource management. This Guidance on Resource Management (RM) Dashboards was
On Thursday, October 26, 2017, the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation hosted a virtual training focused on “Enhancing Mission Critical Decision Making: Understanding Core Information Requirements”. This virtual training provided participants with the opportunity to: Gain awareness level knowledge on the process and national baseline for defining core information requirements to support
With the release of our latest SOG supplement (Tornadoes), we would like to make all these documents more accessible. Below, please find all of the NAPSG SOGs for download, all in Word format. Also included here, in PDF format, is the NAPSG SOG quick guide. NAPSG-SOG-V-3-FINAL NAPSG-TornadoSOG-Final 08-10-15 NAPSG-CoastalStormSOG-Final 5.0 – 8-21-14 NAPSG-Wildfire SOG-V1.1_2013 NAPSG-OilSpillSOG-V1.1_2013
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Oil Spill SOP Template