New Living Atlas Content: Emergency Management Webmaps

Emergency Management webmaps are now available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World Canada Edition. Learn how your organization can leverage these maps and their data.

An extremely valuable set of Emergency Management web mapping applications, from the Government Operations Centre (GOC), have recently been added to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World Canada Edition. Housed at Public Safety Canada, the GOC supports preparedness for and leads the coordination of the integrated federal response to all-hazard events of national interest. These web maps are curated using publicly accessible authoritative data and are designed to be easy to use and intuitive.  

The first of the Emergency Management webmap applications that have been added to the Living Atlas is the Wildland Fires application. This application shows wildfire hotspots, fire perimeters, smoke plume modeling and other layers of interest, such as infrastructure and transportation and current weather conditions.

The second Emergency Management webmap application that have been added to the Living Atlas is the Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (CIMD) application. The CIMD is an area-based index using 2021 Census of Population microdata to measure four key dimensions of deprivation: residential instability, economic dependency, situational vulnerability, and ethno-cultural composition at the dissemination area level. Through factor analysis each dissemination area is given a score of 1 through 5, where 1 represents the least deprived and 5 represents the most deprived. 

Finally, the third Emergency Management web mapping application added to the Living Atlas, is the NASP Imagery application. The National Aerial Surveillance Program (NASP) is a team of planes, drones, satellites, and people — including pilots, surveillance officers, data specialists and aircraft maintenance engineers dedicated to helping Canada stay safe. NASP operations are led by Transport Canada, however they represent a larger coordinated effort with other federal departments like Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard, and Environment and Climate Change Canada, as well as provincial governments and private sector partners. The main goal of the NASP is preventing pollution in Canadian waters, protecting the marine environment and endangered marine life. However, the NASP also serves Canadians outside their mandate by supporting national security events, search and rescue incidents, humanitarian efforts, and civil emergencies.