Auckland NZGIS4EM Workshop Summary
For a full summary please NZGIS4EM Auckland Workshop Summary.
This was a two-day workshop with an emphasis on GIS for Emergency Management for the Upper North Island and a follow up to our Wellington Workshop in February 2017. There were over 50 attendees across National, Regional, and Local Government.
The first day included both thought provoking presentation, discussion panel, and a breakout session. The GIS Specialists from the Bay of Plenty region demonstrated the geospatial decision support tools used in the Cyclone Debbie and Cook response. The second day was designed to train GIS staff to be deploy geospatial decision support tools ahead of disaster and test their preparedness with a short exercise.
The overall goal of this event was to raise awareness, build community, and to give participants action items to take back to their organisations. While participants gained new skills and successfully deployed geospatial decision support tools, the stress test on Day 2 showed critical knowledge gaps.
The key finding of this workshop is that a National & Regional geospatial concept of operations is required for the civil defence and the geospatial community to be sufficiently prepared for the next large-scale disaster.
See the NZGIS4EM Training Website for more information and a full map of NZGIS4EM Attendees.
