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Developing A Virtual City For Emergency Preparedness Planning And Training, Jon K. Morgan
Developing A Virtual City For Emergency Preparedness Planning And Training, Jon K. Morgan
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Existing techniques for emergency preparedness planning and training fail or lack the ability to convey training on a broad scale and timely fashion. Skill sets that are required for planning, mitigation, response and recovery issues are lost through information overload or failure to identify other channels in which to convey the information. In order to resolve some of the issues with currently existing methods such as tabletop training exercises (TTX), instructional video learning and full-scale exercises we can turn to virtual environments.
In a virtual environment teams can interact with their surroundings from the comfort of the office without having …