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Identifier	Thesis 1494
Author	Jack, Joshua
Title	Emergency Incident Mapper : an emergency dispatching application developed for a rural community / Joshua Jack
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	1998
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The purpose of this thesis project was to develop a Geographic Information System (GIS) application that would increase the efficiency of a certain rural volunteer fire department which does not employ emergency dispatching personnel. The Goal was to customize and implement the GIS portion of a GIS based E9-1-1 system. Existing GIS applications which focus on aiding emergency personnel, all require on site user input as apposed to a system capable of automation. The project tackles this deficiency of available applications, with a customized application called Emergency Incident Mapper (EIM). EIM provides two modes; full automation and manual. A needs assessment was conducted on the department which revealed its needs. This assessment helped shape the design of EIM. Needs of the department resulted in a system that rapidly produce output containing critical spatial and attribute information concerning the current emergency incident. The design and development of EIM followed a sequential model. The design and development involved establishing specific requirements of the application and how its components would relate to one another. EIM was successfully developed under the ArcView GIS software using the programming language Avenue. Avenue is an object-oriented language that comes with the ArcView software and is used for application development. Scripts containing Avenue programming code have been written to fuel the application. As stated in the first paragraph, the goal of this project was to create an application which was capable of automation due to the lack of an employed full time user within the department. EIM's automated mode has been developed to operate without on-site user input. An address furnished by the State Enhanced 9-1-1 system can be sent via modem to the local computer running the application. At the completion of the application's automatic mode, a hardcopy product is produced containing maps, documentation and images for emergency personnel use. A customized graphic user interface (GUI) was created for the manual mode, focusing on simplicity for the end user. This customized GUI enables the user to produce the end product without learning the software itself. The GUI is comprised of special menus, buttons and dialog boxes which are all driven by scripts capable of creating a complicated network of commands similar to those produced in the automatic mode. Attribute and spatial data are gathered and displayed through the process of linking relational databases together which then can be queries and manipulated to construct the desired information. The result of EIM is a powerful tool for emergency personnel. This application provides a tool which enhances the users knowledge of the situation thus increasing the accuracy of decision making and results in a more efficient department. EIM provides a more productive method of dispatching due to the reduction of user interaction.
Subject	Geographic information systems Emergency management Fire departments -- Communication systems -- Rural conditions
Department	Department of Geography
Advisor	Harmon, John E
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	40254084
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