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GeoInsight Resource Kit
GeoInsight
Overview | Flood | Bushfire | Storm | Data
Capture | Future | Doing
Business
Winner - 2003 - Australian Safer Communities
Awards - Pre-Disaster Category
Conceived by the Technik Group and supported
by AusIndustry, GeoInsight is a workshop and seminar series
designed to promote to Australian Emergency Management
agencies the use of geospatial information in the prevention,
preparedness, response, and recovery phases of disasters.
The five topic areas were Flood, Bushfire, Storm, Data
Capture and Future
Directions.
Multilocus was contracted to write,
design, direct and produce a set of products including
posters, brochures, booklets, 7 CD-ROMs and 6 video
case studies supporting GeoInsight. These items
formed an educational Resource Kit, which Multilocus
then distributed to 3000 recipients on behalf of
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The project was valued at just under half a
million dollars and took nine months to complete.
At the launch of the GeoInsight Resource
Kit on 28 March 2003 Technik’s
Managing Director Mr Nik Fominas revealed to the more than 80 invited
guests and media that:
“ Due to the magnitude of the task,
the production of the resources was an element of the project
to which we had to give a great deal of attention.
When you consider that the overall value of this element was about half a
million dollars and that the materials we had to compile were so numerous
and diverse in nature, we had concerns about the ability of any one company
to undertake the task.
We had to balance that with the need to ensure that the products were of
the highest quality and consistency. After much research and deliberation,
which included visits and discussions with companies in Melbourne and discussions
with companies in Brisbane and Sydney, we decided to let the work to a single
Canberra based company.
That company was Multilocus Interactive Pty Ltd.
We contracted Multilocus to compile the diverse seminar, workshop, resource
and research materials and to produce the quality resource kit and spatial
information industry development CD-ROM you see here today.
I really have to praise and congratulate Multilocus for their excellent work.
Multilocus fulfilled the challenging brief admirably, producing what is truly
a world-class job. We are very proud of the product and I believe that Multilocus
can be justifiably proud of what they have achieved.”
The five ‘Topic’ CD-ROMs – Flood, Bushfire, Data
Capture, Future Directions and Storm mirror
the Seminars and Workshops presented throughout Australia and are designed
to run on standard desktop computers.
Whilst the GeoInsight road show was in Melbourne, the Seminars were recorded
and together with the presenters’ slides, have been reproduced on each
of the respective topic CD-ROMs. In the cases of Flood, Bushfire, Storm and
Data Capture the Workshop images and data sets have been modified so that they
can be presented and played back from a CD-ROM. This task has been very challenging,
as computers using geographic information systems (GIS) to present spatial
data in an operational environment are generally the most powerful available.
When the content development group began work on the format of the Seminars
and Workshops, care was taken to select topics that would be diverse in their
interest but at the same time complement each other. The focus of the presentations
was to help participants get an appreciation of the potential of GIS without
needing to understand all the technical background. Because the program would
see all topics presented at each venue, special care was taken to minimise
any duplication of material presented between the topics. For example, the
topics of Bushfire, Storm and Flood talk about how attribute data for buildings
stored in a GIS can be used during the Prevention, Preparation, Response and
Recovery phases of an emergency.
To minimise duplication, the Flood topic covers building attribute data in
detail, whilst the Bushfire and Storm topics simply show how it was used. Storm
demonstrates how census data can be presented in a visual form using a GIS
so that managers can determine where specific assistance involving other agencies
may be required, whereas Flood and Bushfire just make mention of its use.
The Data Capture topic uses the Longford Gas Plant explosion to show in detail
how data can be collected and then presented. These same techniques are equally
applicable to collecting data for use in other emergency scenarios such as
Bushfire, Storm and Flood.
As part of the GeoInsight resource Kit, Technik commissioned the production
of five video case studies of GIS best practice within Australian emergency
management. Because of savings we made in distributing the “Doing Business
with Emergency Management” CD-ROM Multilocus was able to produce six
case studies. These case studies are included on the Future Directions CD-ROM.
The six videos extend the other four topic CD-ROMs by showing how GIS can improve
agency efficiencies by illustrating its application in six very different situations.
What we did
• Designed a theme and presentation style for all the GeoInsight program
products;
• Designed and laid out the GeoInsight information and registration brochure
and organised its printing and mailing to delegates.
• Produced the multimedia welcome presentation, the lectern banners, PowerPoint
presentations, and workshop notes for the Seminar and Workshop Road show.
• Produced the Resource Kit comprising:
• Resource kit folder – designed and printed the cover and organised
the manufacture of 3000 folders.
• Overview booklet 16 pages – edited the provided text, sourced images
to be used from agencies such as ADF, AFP, BOM and EMA, undertook the design
and layout, and organised the printing of 4500 copies.
• 5 TopicCD-ROMs – Multilocus produced a CD-ROM to compliment each
of
the seminar and workshop topics.
• Six case studies of GIS best practice in emergency management (included
in the Future Directions CD) - researched, wrote, filmed and edited, compressed
video clips.
• Facilitators Guide 20 pages – Multilocus wrote the text, undertook
the design and layout of the booklet and organised the printing of 3000 copies.
• Cost Benefit booklet 40 pages – design, layout and print 3000 copies.
• Took nearly 1400 digital photographs to be used in the resources
• Designed and framed using Australian Recycled Hardwood 50 Certificates
of Appreciation for project contributors.
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