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GISCorps Learned Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
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on Tuesday February 07, @08:44AM
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GeoPlace host an article about lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina by the GISCorps. From the article's conclusion: "As a volunteer organization, affiliation with GISCorps provided a neutral venue for efficient service delivery with transparency to inevitable politics. Of the many lessons learned by Katrina GISCorps volunteers, perhaps the most important is the need to establish geospatial technology resources as a core functional component in every local emergency operations plan in the United States."
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