The Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) Data and Analytics Directorate has been honoured with a Special Achievement in GIS (Geographic Information System) award at the recent 2024 Esri User Conference in San Diego.
The award was presented in recognition of the team’s work on a Common Operating Picture (CoP) which was created during the Cyclone Gabrielle response. It emerged from the need to have a single geospatial platform for agencies to collate and visualise crucial situational awareness information during response and recovery activities, FENZ said in a statement.
The CoP had 34 government agencies, five commercial agencies, 215 individual accounts, and 30 different information and imagery datasets connected to share Fire and Emergency CoP data via ArcGIS.
The Esri User Conference recognises organisations around the world for their contribution to GIS technology.
Fire and Emergency is the only New Zealand organisation to be honoured for this Award in 2024.
“This award is a well-deserved acknowledgement of this mahi and highlights the exciting innovation happening within the team who seek to constantly improve the capability of our frontline crews,” says FENZ Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Hamish McEwen.
