Nick Jones and Alexandra Gioutsou presented on improving the Environment Agency's incident response capabilities. Over the past year, the number of EA staff able to use new mapping and data collection tools has grown from 235 to over 2,200. These tools were utilized during the Easter 2018 rain event, with over 700 staff logging in, 49 collecting field data, and 5 drone deployments capturing over 500 photos and videos. The tools provided more visual information than ever before to assist with planning, response, and recovery efforts. The authors see potential for further improvements by combining drone and field data collection capabilities.

1. Nick Jones and Alexandra Gioutsou
Improving the Environment Agency’s
Incident Response

2. Nick Jones
Incident Management Digital Strategy Lead
Alexandra Gioutsou
GIS Analyst (Mapping and Visuals Officer
Lead)

3. Background

4. Incident Response – 2015/16

5. Incident Response – 2018

6. Incident Response – 2018

7. Over the past year user numbers have steadily increased as we went from a pilot to a beta and
now onto a production system…
235+
EA office-based staff (Mapping and
Visuals Officers)
2200+
EA field-based staff trained to use the
Collector App
IM Portal

8. Mapping and Visuals Officers (MAVOs)
Planning
During
Recovery
Planned
activity
Property
at risk
Drone
operation
Impact
and scale
Live
video
Live field
data
Summary
maps
Recovery
activity
Community
engagement

10. Easter Rain Event (31st March to 9th April 2018)
712
Collector for ArcGIS logins
49
Field based staff collecting
data
Points of data
captured
227
560+
Pictures and videos
captured
5
Drone deployments –
Yorkshire and Thames areas
9
Area teams involvedPoints tagged as
suitable for external
communication
64%
Flood outlines recorded (0 properties
within these outlines)
3

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More visual information than ever before
Combining Drones and Collector data…

12. The Future

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14. Thank you
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