Bernie Szukalski outlines how to get resources for the recent Chile Earthquake from ArcGIS Online in his recent blog post - ArcGIS Online Earthquake response for Chile. Also note that the Chile Response pages are live where you can view maps, request assistance and find recent resources.  These pages are available both in English and ...

Access to live feeds of information within the Common Operational Picture enhances Situational Awareness.  We all know that finding good sources of information that are reliable and from authoritative sources is the challenge. Now the good news: the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC)  has made their rich set of dynamic data available as ...

By Tom Patterson, ESRI Wildland Fire Specialist and Tim Smith, National Park Service GPS Program Coordinator In the wake of the disaster in Haiti, we wanted to share with you some of the options for collecting data in the field or conducting a damage assessment.  Given the expanse of the disaster and the number of people that responded with ...

In continuing support of our users who are helping with the response to the Earthquake in Haiti, here are some ways to consume data from OpenStreetMap.  OpenStreetMap consists of widely available basemap data to support the response in Haiti.  In this blog post, I'll lay out the options for consuming OpenStreetMap data within ...

The Random Hacks of Kindness event sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, The World Bank, NASA and SecondMuse took place in Mountain View CA Nov 12-14 as a codejam focused on new solutions for disaster relief. ESRI sent a team to participate and work on tools for the open source community. Onsite the ESRI team built a working widget for the ...

The USGS Rocky Mountain Geographic Science Center (RMGSC), based in Denver, CO, recently released their Natural Hazard Support System (NHSS) application based on ArcGIS Server and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.  This application (http://nhss.cr.usgs.gov/) contains a wealth of dynamic data including Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Hurricanes, ...