NSAT Version 2 released and available

The National Situational Awareness Tool (NSAT) was released yesterday at the AFAC 2015 conference in Adelaide - click here for the release video.

This year there are 2 manuals; a public version containing all the publicly available emergency management related webfeeds and a private version that details all the secure jurisdictional webfeeds.

You can download a copy of the public version by clicking here.

Access to the private version is for government agencies and employees only. For more information about getting a copy please contact your local EMSINA representative or use the contacts page on the EMSINA website.

EMSINA Booth at AFAC15 - Day 2 Video

Here is a short video of EMSINA's second day at AFAC 2015...

Thanks again to EMA for their ongoing support of EMSINA.

ESRI - share maps and realtime info

Learn to share alerts, evac centre, traffic jam & real-time info on 1 map during a disaster.

Visit the EMSINA Booth @esriaustralia @EMSINAGroup

Mark Wallace (ESRI Australia) at the EMSINA Booth

NSAT - Release at AFAC15

At 12pm come to the Innovation Lounge to see the release of the National Situational Awareness Tool - Version II

Pre-Fire Front Property Triage in Tasmania

Aaron Cashion is going to present Pre-Fire Front Property Triage in Tasmania - come to the EMSINA booth.

EMSINA - Pick the number of lollies comp

Online Competition Only ... guess the number of chocolates & lollies in the jar to win it...enter via Facebook only...drawn at AFAC morning tea (Thursday) and winner announced on Facebook. 

EMSINA Prize at AFAC15

First person to come to the EMSINA booth at AFAC Trade Area and 'Like' us on facebook wins an awesome prize pack #AFAC15.

thx to @EsriAustralia​ for all the prizes throughout AFAC15

Facebook

Like emsinagroup on Facebook   Come visit us at the EMSINA booth at #afac15 tmrw.  

EMSINA - Day 1 AFAC 2015

EMSINA Booth Day 1 #afac15

Cruiser Table at EMSINA booth...so cool...!

Come and have a go at the cruiser table at the EMSINA Booth #AFAC15 @EMSINAgroup

Cruiser table

Come to the EMSINA booth and see a demo of the Cruiser Table. #AFAC15  @emsinagroup

Welcome to EMSINA's rolling coverage of #AFAC15 @EMSINAgroup

Welcome to EMSINA's rolling coverage of #AFAC15 @EMSINAgroup

EMSINA Booth Opens at 2.30pm

EMSINA Booth opens at 2.30pm. #AFAC2015 @EMSINAGroup

EMSINA Meeting - Have an EM Question

The EMSINA Members will be holding a meeting today and tomorrow in Adelaide. If you have any spatially related EM questions that you wish to have discussed at this meeting please use the 'Comments' section below this post.  

So far we have received questions about:

• Flood Symbology - is there a national symbol set or can EMSINA advise which one to use?
• ...

Three sponsored positions to AFAC

EMSINA wishes to thank Emergency Management Australia (EMA) for its ongoing support. Of particular note we wish to thank EMA for offering three sponsored positions to the EMSINA Meeting in Adelaide and the following AFAC Conference. The three members successful in gaining sponsorship came from NSW, Victoria and Western Australia. 

EMSINA Adelaide Meeting - Pre AFAC15

Reminder...the next EMSINA meeting is on Monday 31 August (12pm to 5pm) and Tuesday 1 September (9am to 1pm) in Adelaide.

RSVP here: http://www.emsina.org/#!next-meeting/c145t

Note: This is not one of the 3 formal meetings - its going to be a working meeting. 

AFAC15 and EMSINA

The EMSINA Group will once again be in attendance at the AFAC15 Conference in Adelaide. EMSINA will have a large Booth where members from all around Australia will be showcasing new and exciting spatial technologies, including their own incident systems. EMSINA is also presenting a Professional Development Session on Friday. These sessions will highlight some of the great spatially related projects and technologies being used across Australia. For more information about the Booth or PDP items click here [EMSINA Booth Details] or here [EMSINA PDP Session Details].

For the first time during an AFAC Conference EMSINA will have dedicated social media officers. These two officers role is to keep you up-to-date on the Group's activities 'live' via the EMSINA website and integrated social media; including activity reminders, presentations, interviews and some cool interactive online competitions open to all.

If you are attending AFAC and wish to get involved with the EMSINA activities please drop by the Booth.

 

EMSINA and the successful NEMP Bids

The EMSINA Group and its valued members have been instrumental in assisting Geoscience Australia successfully apply for 2 National Emergency Management Project's worth approximately half a million dollars. 

The first project will see a National Spatial Aggregation Tool built. This tool will take all the jurisdictional bushfire feeds and aggregate them into one nationally consistent webfeed available back to all participants. This capability will then open up significant automation possibilities including a Project already under development in the National Crisis Coordination Centre. This Project will also have allocations toward improving:

• Bom webfeeds: Tsunami Coastal Zones, Volcanic Ash Clouds, 
• CAP-AU Feeds: The jurisdictions, where applicable will be allocated money to upgrade their bushfire feed to CAP-AU compliant.

The second Project is utilising the Japanese satellite Himawari-8 images to detect National bushfire activity every 10 minutes. These hotspots will increase the detection from "four times a day to 144 times a day".

You can read more about each of the Projects by clicking here. 

ABC Website..

Emergency +

Here is another example of Spatial Technology is saving lives...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-27/emergency-app-helped-rescuers-locate-couple-lost-in-bushland/6649464

EMSINA Meeting - Brisbane Details

The next EMSINA Meeting is now confirmed for Thursday 16 and Friday 17 July, 2015.

The meeting will be held at Queensland Police Headquarters in warm and welcoming Brisbane.

Member RSVP's are been sent out this week and Guest RSVP's are already open. Click here to access the online RSVP forms.

The Agenda is in draft format and will soon be available to all via the EMSINA website.

8 Days until EMSINA Melbourne

Just a reminder that it is only 8 days until the Melbourne EMSINA meeting. Don't forget to RSVP if you intend coming along: http://www.emsina.org/#!next-meeting/c145t

EMSINA's new website: http://www.emsina.org

Time to RSVP for the next EMSINA Meeting

Its time to start thinking about the next EMSINA Meeting in Melbourne on 21 & 22, April. The hosts are Dept. Environment and Primary Industry this time around. It is essential to RSVP as we have a full agenda and are expecting a good turnout.

Members win awards...

A huge congratulations to Steve Forbes (ACT ESA and EMSINA Chair) who won the 2014 Professional of the Year at the 2014 Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards in Brisbane.

Another massive achievement at the  2014 Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards; the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE), won the Technical Excellence award for the Spatial Information Foundations Project, incorporating the Tasmanian Emergency Management Common Operating Platform (COP).

EMSINA and its members wish to pass on our congratulations to Steve and DPIPWE.  

EMSINA's New Website - Update

EMSINA's new website is now complete. We are now conducting final content checks with the hope it will go live in the next two weeks.

Gallipoli Map - 100 years on

"A treasure-trove of original World War I documents handwritten by a soldier who served in Gallipoli has been found, stolen, and then returned, in an eventful few months in the central Queensland town of Emerald." 

"The documents belonged to licensed surveyor Private James Nicholas Murray, who produced what were thought to be the most detailed maps to date of Russell's Top, a lesser-known but strategically critical line of defence in the eight-month long battle."

A fantastic read. View the whole article...click here

Image and document source: ABC