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LOCATE15 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCES SPEAKERS FOR THE
SECURING OUR NATION, DISASTER & EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
STREAM
Locate15 is Australia and New Zealands leading spatial event
being held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre 10-12
March. Locate15 is designed to energise the location industry,
inspire both producers and consumers of location information, and
drive greater awareness, adoption and innovation.
The Securing our Nation, Disaster & Emergency Management
stream at Locate15 will present not only innovative spatial
technologies used to improve response time but also the ways
response teams receive data, manage recovery efforts and the
overcome challenges encountered in these complex situations.
Stream Key Speaker:
Matt Thomas Infrastructure & Traffic, Sensing City,
Christchurch New Zealand Mr Thomas has worked as a consultant in
Business Architecture and Programme Management for over fifteen
years in the UK and New Zealand and started his own consulting
company in early 2013 and has been working on Sensing City since
April 2013. He has been working Christchurch City Council in
support of their Capital Programme Group,
and the Canterbury Earthquake Rebuild Authority in
prioritisation frameworks and decision modelling.
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Stream Presentations and Speakers:
AFP Response to MH17 Disaster in the Ukraine James Harris,
Australian Federal Police There were a large number of Australian
Citizens and residents on board Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17,
which triggered Australias response as a humanitarian mission to
recover the remains. Australia sent a large contingent to Holland
and the Ukraine to undertake the recovery of human remains and the
identification of these remains through the AFPs DVI capability. Mr
Harris will present an outline of the complexities of the
situation, including the technical difficulties in supplying
support to teams highly isolated in extreme risk situations with
little or no communications; the multi-agency response; timeline
pressures, the products created and delivered; and the feedback
from international partners. Spatiotemporal changes in economic
activity following the Canterbury earthquakes. Chris Bowie and
Vivienne Ivory, Opus Research, Opus International Consultants
Businesses take care to locate themselves in the best place. What
happens when their locations are forcibly changed? This paper
presents initial findings of the recent changes in economic
activity in Christchurch, New Zealand following the 2010-2011
earthquakes. Using multiple formal and informal secondary datasets
we developed area indicators of the physical and economic
neighbourhood environments (numbers of merchants, number of
businesses, damage to land and buildings), and examined their
relationship with neighbourhood levels of economic activity (retail
and accommodation and food expenditure). We found initial increases
in business numbers to the less damaged west and north of the city,
but also continuing change as the city rebuilds. Multiple general
linear regression analyses compared changes over time and across
neighbourhoods after adjustment for indicators of land and building
damage within neighbourhoods.
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Emergency Vehicle Priority a safer, faster response Justin
White, Public Safety Business Agency The innovative Emergency
Vehicle Priority (EVP) technology is an intuitive and dynamic
system that provides emergency response vehicles with priority
access through a controlled road network. EVP automatically
interrupts normal traffic signal operations, providing a green
traffic light signal to emergency response vehicles in advance of
their arrival allowing them to proceed through the intersection
without needing to stop or slow down, when safe to do so. EVP
capability is delivered by the Public Safety Business Agency and
the Department of Transport and Main Roads, supported by Queensland
Ambulance Service, Queensland Fire and Emergency Service,
Queensland Police Service and local authorities in each rollout
area. Delivery of Australian Fire and Disaster Feed via Cloud
Services Brett Madsen, Permuto and Kristin Milton, Geoscience
Australia Emergency Management Australias mission is to provide
situation awareness data for government. The Australia Fire Service
feed is a proof of concept project by Geoscience Australia that
aims to consolidate the current multiple state emergency feeds into
a single CAP_AU standard feed. The entire process will be hosted on
an FME Cloud instance and will allow this process to run outside of
any internal government IT infrastructure, utilising Amazon AWS and
is fully scalable with demand and will store the data, so end users
can view time series data. Realtime information helps emergency
responders to see the whole picture Peter Timmers, Public Safety
Business Agency, Information and Data Services Ensuring resources
are swiftly dispatched to bushfire hotspots is a critical focus for
emergency responders. To meet this crucial need, the Public Safety
Business Agency (PSBA) has implemented an innovative Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) technology solution to strengthen their
mitigation efforts during a fire event. At the start of the 2014
bushfire season, the PSBA and Queensland Fire and Emergency
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Services (QFES) replaced their laptop-based mapping system with
iPads equipped with a new app, which has significantly improved
their ability to monitor and understand fire behaviour. PSBA and
QFES are working on projects to develop additional emergency
management strategies and replace existing mobile GIS systems with
the new app including Rapid Damage Assessment, fuel hazard
assessment and community engagement. Using geospatial & social
crowd source data with cloud technology to support an emergency
response in a zombie apocalyptic scenario Michael Fitzpatrick,
1Spatial Mr. Fitzpatrick will use a zombie apocalypse scenario to
demonstrate how spatial data can be combined in real time with
crowd-sourced social media content and be managed by a range of web
services and technologies such as, Google Maps Engine, PostGIS, FME
Cloud and Web Based Collaboration tools. The response scenario will
demonstrate the potential of a seamless, machine-to-machine
interaction over a network, combined with on-the-fly data
integration. This zombie scenario will demonstrate how it is
possible to establish an effective emergency management response
that could be applied to a wide range of real world situations.
Exhibition Opportunities There are a limited number of exhibition
stands available for Locate15. If you are interested in showcasing
your business please contact Caryn Morgan [email protected],
call +61 02 9810 2701 or visit
http://www.locateconference.com/sponsor.