Developing a regional approach and strategy for geographical

information systems for emergency management

Gavin TreadgoldGavin.Treadgold@cdemcanterbury.govt.nz

Emergency Management Advisor – PlanningCanterbury CDEM Group – Regional Office

Canterbury CDEM Group area• Canterbury

earthquake sequence 2010 onwards

• Hurunui-Kaikōuraearthquake 2016

• Port Hills fire 2017

• Canterbury floods 2018

The Exploding Mind Map

2016 – Precinct EOC User Stores

2017 – South Island GIS4EM Workshop 2018 – Canterbury Lifelines Workshop

2016 – Precinct EOC User Stories

2017 – South Island GIS4EM Workshop

2018 – Canterbury Lifelines Workshop

Current Version

Themes• Hazards• Lifelines• Natural

Environment• Built Environment• Rural Environment• Community and

Social Environment• Response/Partner

agencies

Desired outcomes

• Implement a Common Operating Picture for Canterbury (and compatible with NZ Inc. COP)

• Built upon a standards-based architecture

• Develop regional capability

• Integration with other programmes

Principles

• Systems-based approach• Standards-based and interoperable• Application and platform agnostic• Scalable and consistent• Identify best owner/curator• Honesty and expectation management• Encourage competition and innovation• Continuous improvement and agile methods• Shared responsibility• Maximise investment and spread the benefits

Canterbury’s Development Approach

1. Identify and prioritise key information capabilities and functions

2. Obtain required datasets and host them

3. Develop key special purpose applications

4. Develop Common Operating Picture (COP) tools that integrate information from special purpose applications [3]

5. Repeat [2] to [4] expanding datasets and tools

Building apps

Two approaches

• Business as usual (preferred) – leverage BAU tools, systems, processes and most importantly data custodianship. Make existing tools emergency aware, more robust, and more resilient.

• CDEM – where nothing exists in BAU, or where CDEM is the best custodian, build an emergency app

Risks and issues

• Individuals capacity

• Work priorities

• Reliance upon key individuals and organisations

• The TAG review- “You will improve”

• Lack of coordination and collaboration

• Resistance to interoperability

Next steps

• Communicated and socialised more widely with stakeholders

• Assessment of current and desired states

• Linked with other key projects like C10 (Canterbury’s fly-in support teams)

• Specific problems identified, scoped, documented

• Expanded to a wider information/knowledge management approach

• Widespread agreement on what a true Common Operating Picture looks like

Thank you. Questions?

Gavin TreadgoldGavin.Treadgold@cdemcanterbury.govt.nz

Emergency Management Advisor – PlanningCanterbury CDEM Group – Regional Office