eMap (Emergency Map) – Wins the People and Community Award

A 'good news' story to start the week off...

Victoria's joint incident operational mapping platform eMap (Emergency Map) – Wins the People and Community Award at the 2013 Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards. EMSINA would like to congratulate CFA, DEPI, SES and MFB who have demonstrated fantastic cross agency cooperation to build and implement this comprehensive spatial tool.

eMap Overview: the capability has the ability to work in an online and offline state, can capture data by air & ground observers, who can share the information back to the web platform for all across the state to view. There is a raft of live information shown in eMap, from everything from detailed incident information to vast array of weather feeds. To give the current “picture” of what is happening across the state to decision makers at any given time this information is always kept up to date. If you would like to know more about eMap please click here.

Tom Sanderson (CFA), Stephen Salathiel (DEPI), Alen Slijepcevic (Deputy Chief Officer - CFA), A
dam Damen (DEPI), Naomi Withers (DEPI)

Mapping fire severity in the Top End

The Bushfire CRC’s Northern Fire Mapping project developed fire severity mapping to help manage fire in the tropical savannas and rangelands across Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

The study has determined that on average over half the landscape was affected by fire each year, releasing vast amounts of carbon and destroying the carbon stored in trees. Reducing these greenhouse gas emissions will have enormous financial benefits for fire managers, as well as indigenous land owners, allowing them to earn incomes managing the land.

In the forum Dr Andrew Edwards discusses how the results of the project have improved ecological-risk assessments, including greenhouse gas emissions, tree carbon sequestration, biodiversity and erosion. Watch it in full here. Also available via the link is the full research report on the subject, as well as a Fire Note.

Please note due to technical difficulties (particularly at the start and end) the sound quality at points is not great. Please contact andrew.edwards@cdu.edu.au if you require clarification on any aspects of the research.

Sentinel v1.2 Cutover

Following on from the EMSINA meeting last week...

"I am very happy to inform that Sentinel v1.2 is now the default version on GA website (http://sentinel.ga.gov.au).

Big thanks to everyone involved in the update process."

Andreia Siqueira

Geoscience Australia

Please click here for the release notes. 

Position Article...

For those who subscribe to 'Position' check out an article written by Robert Newham, a Geoscience Australia CCC Liaison Officer in relation to the evolving EM spatial capability in the Australian Government's Crisis Coordination Centre. It also talks about the importance of the consuming information from the source...i.e the NSAT capability EMSINA is working hard on.

Position Magazine - April/May Edition (no 70) - Page 49 and 50 - Title "Mapping the way to enhance effective Crisis Coordination".