Use Case: Operational Briefings
Statewide Visibility for
Emergency Management
California Governor's Office of Emergency Services
Californians are all too familiar with catastrophes. US News and World
Report recently rated California as number 1 on its top-10 list of disaster-
prone states. The state is susceptible to earthquakes, floods, landslides,
significant wildfires, prolonged drought, public health emergencies,
cybersecurity attacks, and agricultural and animal disasters.
The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)
oversees and coordinates the state's emergency response operations.
Its California Preparedness Platform (Cal PreP) includes Esri
technology. The platform's Cal Prep Dashboard brings all emergency
information together to show the state's current fires, traffic, Doppler
radar, weather, and power outage data on one screen. Depending
on the hazard type, operations centers across California access the
dashboard to better understand incidents they are managing. The
dashboard shows incidents in real time and provides local agencies
with critical information for making intelligence-based decisions.
"You're looking at what's happening now, not what happened 12
hours ago. The dashboard provides that snapshot; it saves time.
Instead of someone stopping in the middle of an operation to brief
someone, they can just walk in, look at the screen, and see exactly
what they want to see."
Duane Valenzuela
Response Operations, Cal OES
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