Adams County Emergency Management has asked us to attend a webinar at 12:00pm October 21st at the Emergency Management Office located at 1313 N. Hastings Ave. Hastings, NE 68901
Information about the webinar is as follows:
Do you work with Amateur Radio Operators when responding to emergencies? Are you an Amateur Radio Operator yourself? If you answered “Yes” to either question, I would like to invite you to a complimentary webinar that demonstrates how new mapping technology can enhance the disaster planning and response capabilities of Amateur Radio Operators.
I will be hosting the webinar and will be joined by guest presenter David Friedman, KE7GOY, an Amateur Radio Operator, Disaster Response Director for Muttshack Animal Rescue and an American Red Cross Volunteer. During last year’s winter floods, David used Depiction mapping and simulation software to coordinate rescue operations during the 2008 winter floods in the Seattle area, and he has described that experience in the November 2009 edition of QST magazine.
We are offering this webinar twice, on Wednesday, October 21 at 1 PM EDT/10 AM PDT, and then on Saturday, October 24, at 12:30 PM EDT/8:30 AM PDT.
During each of these webinars, Amateur Radio Operators and others will learn how to:
- Geo-locate all physical assets and volunteers in “depictions” to track deployment locations,
- Integrate maps, elevation plots, weather data, “fly over” imagery, situation reports and any critical proprietary data into a single depiction display,
- “Depict” antenna line-of-site footprints to help determine geographic frequency allocation,
- Use Depiction’s “Live reports” communication feature to enhance awareness of volunteer movements, resource status, damage assessments, etc. during a disaster,
This special webinar will benefit anyone who works with amateur radio during emergencies; participants need not have any familiarity with Depiction mapping software to benefit from the webinar scenario illustrations and discussion.
You are encouraged to share this free webinar invitation with any Amateur Radio Operators you may know or work with.
All the best,
Kim Buike
