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GeoInsight Resource Kit
GeoInsight
Overview | Flood | Bushfire |
Storm | Data
Capture | Future | Doing
Business
Development of a GIS
for Storm Management
On the afternoon of 14 April, 1999, a freak
storm hit the southern suburbs of Sydney. Hailstones the size
of cricket
balls hit
the city at more than two hundred kilometres per hour.
19,437 properties
were damaged in 150 suburbs across 9 local government
areas leaving a damage bill in excess of $1.5 Billion. This
was
Australia’s
most expensive natural disaster to date.
In this Seminar Kelvin Wise, the Manager of Geographic
Information Systems at the New South Wales Rural Fire Service,
outlines
the experiences of the Joint Emergency Services Mapping
Unit that
was set up overnight to coordinate the recovery operation.
The Workshop illustrates some of the GIS products produced
by the Joint Emergency Services Mapping Unit in what
became known
as Operation Autumn Storm.
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