ADNOC’s New Headquarters, planned for completion in 2012, will include the new Crisis Management Centre.

Events like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico highlight the need for rapid and coordinated response operations.  EmerGeo’s Fusionpoint software provides a real-time situational picture of events and activities, integrates mapping and hazard models (e.g. oil spill dispersion models), supports multiple languages (e.g. English and Arabic) and provides rapid communication among decision-makers and responders.

“There is a clear leadership commitment to continually develop a world-class crisis management capability across SPC and the ADNOC group of companies” states Craig Buckingham, the crisis management team leader at the Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) and ADNOC. “Systems like EmerGeo are useful in supporting preparedness and response activities, codes of practice, planning and continued monitoring of resource capabilities against risks within the group”, Buckingham concluded.

“We are committed to helping ADNOC achieve its goal of protecting people, property and the environment. Our team in Abu Dhabi are working very closely with ADNOC to implement a world-class crisis information management system in the ADNOC Crisis Management Centre to support the entire organization”, states Mike Morrow, President and CEO of EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide.

ADNOC manages and oversees oil production of around 3 million barrels a day which ranks it among the top ten oil and gas companies in the world.  ADNOC has 18 subsidiary companies working in the various fields of the oil, gas and petrochemical industry as well as crude oil and gas transport and services. Its track record in occupational health and safety, and protection of the environment, sets the standards for the rest of the Arabian Gulf.

About EmerGeo – www.emergeo.com
EmerGeo develops emergency management software solutions and provides consulting services and support to government and industry around the world. By leveraging open web standards, EmerGeo’s software brings together, logs and tracks data from dispatch, crisis management, mapping, camera and other third-party systems, providing a common operating picture. EmerGeo’s technology and people have been at the forefront of some of the world’s largest disasters and are proven effective in helping government and industry to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to and recover from potential or actual incidents, natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or pre-planned events.  EmerGeo Software Solutions Middle East LLC is a strategic partnership between EmerGeo Worldwide and Atlas Telecom that leverages the expertise of EmerGeo and the regional success of Atlas Telecom in delivering mission critical solutions.

On behalf of the Board of Directors
EMERGEO SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE INC.

“Michael Morrow”

Michael Morrow, President & CEO

For more information contact the Company at:
Telephone: (001) 604-681-0989
Facsimile: (001) 604-681-0079
Email: infoemergeocom
Website: http://www.emergeo.com
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Vancouver, B.C., – July 14, 2010 - EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide Inc. (TSX-V: EMG), a leading provider of emergency management software and consulting services, is pleased to announce the availability of EmerGeo Version 5.3 in August 2010.  Building on the company’s disaster-proven crisis management technology and experience, EmerGeo 5.3 enhances its emergency mapping solution and Fusionpoint web portal application.

EmerGeo’s software provides a complete integrated solution for emergency planning, training, operations and interoperability.  Version 5.3 offers new enhanced performance, usability and functionality, including:

• Open Geospatial Consortium^® Compliant Data Sharing/Interoperability Features – the EmerGeo ‘Feed Manager’ enables consumption and publishing of real-time critical data among multiple agencies and information systems using OGC^® Standard GeoRSS, KML (Keyhole Markup Language) and WMS (Web Map Services).  EmerGeo’s web mapping application (Navigator) is also enhanced to allow consumption of KML;
• Automated Alert Notification – to issue text-based alerts to emergency staff and other stakeholders based on key information such as ‘Type’, ‘Status’ and ‘Severity’.  The ‘EmerGeo-GeoProcessor’ is an optional add-on to the Fusionpoint application that integrates with this alert notification capability and adds a capability to send email alerts to subscribers based on incidents or issues within proximity of areas of concern, such as critical infrastructure.  Optional interfaces to third-party notification systems are also available;

The EmerGeo Fusionpoint 5.3 Web Dashboard for Situational Awareness and Emergency Operations.

• Enhanced Mapping Symbols – EmerGeo’s mapping applications support image-based symbols (icons) and the new Canadian Emergency Mapping Standard symbol set is included along with the standard Homeland Security Symbols;
• Customer-branding – users can add their own logo’s to EmerGeo’s Fusionpoint and Navigator mapping applications;
• WebEOC^® and ETeam^™ Fusion Interfaces – Fusionpoint offers optional interfaces to leading crisis management software: an updated interface to ESi’s WebEOC and a new interface to NC4’s ETeam software, enabling data aggregation, automated geoprocessing, data sharing and analysis;
• RSS/GeoRSS Fusion Interface – Fusionpoint offers interfaces to RSS and GeoRSS feed sources that can be used to display items on maps, display feeds in tabular format and also to fully fuse these feeds enabling data aggregation, automated geoprocessing and alerting; and
• Performance – Navigator map loading speeds have been significantly enhanced.

Customers with a valid EmerGeo Maintenance & Support Agreement will receive more details shortly on downloading the V5.3 Upgrade from the EmerGeo Support Portal (http://www.emergeo.com/support) at no charge.

About EmerGeo

EmerGeo develops emergency management software solutions and provides consulting services and support to government and industry around the world.  EmerGeo’s Fusionpoint™ and emergency mapping applications are used to log, track and communicate critical information required by emergency and security personnel.  By leveraging open web standards, EmerGeo’s software brings together data from dispatch, crisis management, mapping, camera and other third-party systems, providing a common operating picture.  EmerGeo’s technology and people have been at the forefront of some of the world’s largest disasters and are proven effective in helping government and industry to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to and recover from potential or actual incidents, natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or pre-planned events.

On behalf of the Board of Directors

EMERGEO SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE INC.

“Michael Morrow”

Michael Morrow, President & CEO

For more information contact the Company at:
Telephone:        604-681-0989
Facsimile:         604-681-0079
Email:               infoemergeocom  infoemergeocom  
Website:           http://www.emergeo.com

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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC^®) is registered trademark of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. in the United States and in other countries.  WebEOC is a registered trademark of ESi Acquisition Inc.  ETeam is a trademark of NC4.

In readiness for the 2009 bush fire season, Victoria Police implemented a crisis information management system: PEEC (Police Emergency and Event Command). The PEEC system was developed by combining two leading EM software products: WebEOC® internet-based emergency incident management software and EmerGeo’s internet and mobile emergency mapping technology.

According to Victoria’s Police Commander Dennis Henry, who oversaw the PEEC’s implementation, the system gives Victoria Police better situational awareness than they’ve ever had before. PEEC is a powerful tool that Commander Henry believes has the potential to become a core business system for Victoria Police. It allows officials within the State Operations Centre (SOC) to collect, organize, analyze, and report on incident data during planned and unplanned emergencies. “Most importantly, PEEC brings consistency and timeliness to the data that Victoria Police use to manage their response to events”, Henry explains.

Officers in the field at command posts around Victoria now have the ability to update event information giving the State Operations Centre much better visibility of what’s happening and where it’s happening as it occurs.

WebEOC is produced by ESi in the US and distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Critchlow Limited. EmerGeo is produced in Canada by EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide Inc. and supported in Australia by Spatial Vision.

Steve Critchlow from the New Zealand organization says, “WebEOC provides a common platform for managing information about an emergency situation. Tasks can be assigned and their status monitored and situation reports produced from real-time data. Decision-making becomes more effective when there’s visibility of the emergency situation as it unfolds.”

“Another advantage of this system is that it gives Victoria Police an effective way to operationalize data from other agencies”, explains Graeme Martin of Spatial Vision who oversaw implementation of PEEC’s GIS mapping functionality. By utilizing EmerGeo Mapping to combine WebEOC with agency data, the Victoria Police can achieve real-time situational awareness. EmerGeo provides a real-time picture of what is happening and analysis tools to understand who and what is or could be impacted.

Another important component of PEEC is that it enables Police to use information from previous incidents to plan and improve their response to future events. The incident simulator enables debriefing, enquiries and training exercises to be based on information that flows from actual events.

Victoria Police joins eight other city, state and federal Australian agencies that are already using WebEOC technology supplied by New Zealand-based Critchlow. EmerGeo mapping software supports Western Australia’s emergency management platform and is also used by the Gold Coast City Council’s disaster coordination center.

About Spatial Vision – www.spatialvision.com.au
Spatial Vision is a leading specialist in information and spatial technologies. Integrating geographic and organizational data, we provide business systems, advanced spatial analyses, reliable planning systems and practical mapping applications to address some of the today’s most pressing environmental, economic and resource issues.

About EmerGeo – www.emergeo.com
EmerGeo develops emergency management software solutions and provides consulting services and support to government and industry around the world. By leveraging open web standards, EmerGeo’s software brings together, logs and tracks data from dispatch, crisis management, mapping, camera and other third-party systems, providing a common operating picture. EmerGeo’s technology and people have been at the forefront of some of the world’s largest disasters and are proven effective in helping government and industry to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to and recover from potential or actual incidents, natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or pre-planned events.

On behalf of the Board of Directors
EMERGEO SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE INC.

“Michael Morrow”
Michael Morrow, President & CEO

For more information contact the Company at:
Telephone: (001) 604-681-0989
Facsimile: (001) 604-681-0079
Email: infoemergeocom  infoemergeocom  
Website: http://www.emergeo.com

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