An Article on Pennsylvania's Geospatial Analysis of Threats and Incident Reports

(Our own) Jim Knudson of the Pennsylvania Office for Information Technology has co-authored an article with Jonathan Bishop and Ali Detar, of GeoDecisions, for the February 21 edition of The Patriot News.

The article, GATIR: Securing Pennsylvania's Homeland, is linked from a summary posted on the Pennsylvania OIT web site.

From the summary:

The secure, Internet-accessible GATIR application provides geospatial technologies (GT) and geospatial information systems (GIS) capabilities that work in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency's (PEMA) Pennsylvania Emergency Incident Response System (PEIRS). PIERS, an award-winning incident management system, is used by PEMA and county emergency management agencies to records and manage Commonwealth incidents and to coordinate effective responses.