Crisis management based on GIS - Case study

In the paper we introduce the particular GIS environment and tolls to be used together with recently developed methodologies to support the decision process of crises managers at local level. We applied those tools and methodologies for the area of Banska Bystrica district, Slovakia. The analyses are focusing risk and risk components assessment, in particular the susceptibility and vulnerability to flood and wildland fire. Based on the results obtained as well as consultancies with experts in the field of disaster or crises managers, fire-fighters, those methodologies are fully applicable in the current practice of crisis management, civil protection as well as operative management and coordination of emergency responders of Integrated Rescue system of the Slovak Republic. The only limitations are represented by the low level of knowledge and experience of the crises managers to work in the GIS environment and to use its tools and functions properly as well as the lack of extended GIS environments to provide the spatial analyses in them. In presence the provided GIS environments like CIPREGIS and GIS in CoordCom uses mostly the visualisation function of GIS.