Geocove, the Orlando Technology Firm Featured in New Book to Teach Cities, Counties How to Prepare for Disasters

ORLANDO Fla., --- Geocove, Inc., the Orlando technology firm that developed the award-winning ARM360 GIS-based disaster assessment system for local, state and regional governments and NGOs worldwide, is featured in a new book that aims to teach cities and counties how to best prepare to manage local disasters. Geocove founder and Chief Executive Officer Karyn Tareen said the book, Enabling Comprehensive Situational Awareness, was published by California-based Esri Press and is available from book retailers worldwide. Esri produces software used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities to help agencies and officials plan for and react to significant events. Authors Susan L. Radke, founder and president of Berkeley Geo-Research Group, Russ Johnson, public safety and homeland security director for Esri, and Jeff Baranyi, Esri’s technical lead for the public safety market, wrote the book to help government, municipal and NGO officials use GIS resources to organize and plan mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery efforts through data management, planning and analysis, and field operations. Geocove ranks as a leading U.S. provider of scalable assessment solutions using GIS resources for emergency management, building officials, public health and other government agencies as well as utilities and other private industries. Geocove is a member of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program in the Central Florida Research Park in East Orange County.