The Role of Decision Making Systems (GIS) in Managing future crises

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Faculty member of Army Staff and Command University

2 Assistant of Shahid Satari university

3 PhD in Satari university

Abstract

Crisis prevention and containment first of all requires making effective decisions based on sound and structured information that is quickly and easily accessible to decision makers, so the more relevant, comprehensive and real-time information is made, the better decisions will be made. As a result, losses and losses from the crisis will be reduced. Therefore, this research is aimed at explaining the role of GIS in future crisis management. It is an applied research in terms of purpose and is a component of future research method. The population of the first phase of the study consisted of books, scientific texts, documents and articles related to the case study that were considered in all numbers. In the second phase, 9 experts and experts in the field of crisis management were selected by purposeful method. . In this research, using different environmental monitoring methods, different crisis management patterns were investigated and based on the rotational model, 12 indicators of this model were discussed in focal groups and with the focus group members considering the impact of this system in future crisis management. And they were prioritized. The research findings show that the most effective role of GIS decision systems is during crisis, then crisis start, pre crisis and after crisis which was explained in all 12 stages and indicators. Therefore, it was suggested that organizations Crisis management trustees, using GIS decision systems, manage the process of forecasting, preparing and managing the crisis at the time of occurrence, as well as the post-crisis action process

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