EMERGENCY PLANNING & BUSINESS CONTINUITY
A MODULE OF RESILIENCE EXPLORER®
Resilience Explorer® | Live Situational awareness for Civil Defence and Emergency Management CDEM
A shared operational picture that connects pre-event risk evidence with what is unfolding in real time.
Organisations around the world invest significantly in hazard models and risk assessments for strategic planning. In every major event, the same pattern shows up. Road closures sit in one system, river gauges in another, weather warnings somewhere else, and the data that tells you who is actually at risk is somewhere else again.
Resilience Explorer® | Live brings together live operational information, including MetService and weather warnings, river levels, road closures, traffic cameras, and power outages, with the hazard, exposure, and infrastructure intelligence already in Resilience Explorer®, creating a shared operational picture for emergency managers, CDEM teams, and council planners.
CO-DEVLOPMENT
Built for Christchurch City Council's CDEM team and Smart Christchurch.
THE OUTCOMES RESILIENCE EXPLORER® | LIVE HAS ENABLED
Connects pre-event risk evidence with what is unfolding in real time.
Improved spatial risk intelligence
Warnings, alerts, river gauges, road status, cameras and outages, refreshed every five minutes.
Risk evidence, connected.
The hazard, exposure and infrastructure intelligence you already hold, on the same map as the event.
A shared view in the first hours.
For emergency management, lifelines and council teams, when decisions matter most.
CASE STUDY
Built for Christchurch City Council's CDEM team and Smart Christchurch.
Christchurch City Council's CDEM team and Smart Christchurch implemented Resilience Explorer® | Live to connect pre-event risk intelligence with real-time operational information, giving planners and emergency managers a shared picture that works before, during, and after a climate or natural hazard event.
What Christchurch has gained
• Real-time situational awareness during an event
• Preparedness planning using current hazard and infrastructure information
• Place-based training and exercises using local scenarios
Test emergency plans using local hazards, infrastructure and communities
Emergency exercises often depend on participants imagining how an event might affect their region. In practice, however, emergency response depends on the interaction between hazards, infrastructure, services and communities in particular places.
Resilience Explorer combines this information in a single platform, enabling organisations to test plans, train teams and explore realistic scenarios using their own data. Teams can understand how emergencies may unfold, coordinate across agencies and identify capability gaps before a real event occurs.
Understand local consequences
Examine how hazards affect infrastructure, essential services and communities in your region.
Test plans under realistic conditions
Explore how existing plans perform as information changes, infrastructure fails and conditions evolve.
Strengthen coordination across agencies
Build a shared understanding between teams, organisations and levels of response.
Explore critical decisions
Work through evacuation, public communication, welfare and recovery decisions before an emergency occurs.
Identify capability gaps
Reveal weaknesses, information gaps and operational challenges before they affect a real response.
Example: Tsunami | Coordinated Response Under Rapid Onset
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between Resilience Explorer® | Risk and Resilience Explorer® | Live?
What live data feeds does Resilience Explorer® | Live include?
Do we need Resilience Explorer® | Risk to use Live?
Does it replace our existing emergency management tools?
Can it be used for training and exercises?
Who can access it during an event?
What is on the roadmap?
Who is Resilience Explorer® | Live built for?
