Since 2012, Geoscience Australia (GA) has been providing spatial support and advice to the National Situation Room (NSR) (formally the Crisis Coordination Centre (CCC)) within Emergency Management Australia (EMA) as part of GA’s collaboration with the Attorney-General’s Department. A key information requirement identified by EMA was the need to quickly understand what is in an event area. To address this requirement Geoscience Australia designed the Exposure Report which greatly simplifies the interpretation of exposure information for timely emergency response and recovery decision-making. The Exposure Report is generated by extracting the relevant attributes from the Geoscience Australia National Exposure information System (NEXIS) such as demographics, building, business, agriculture, institutions and infrastructure in an event footprint, geographical boundary or potentially threatened area. This automated process quickly presents the required information in a clear and easily accessible report detailing estimates of what exists in the event area. By improving the timeliness and accuracy of information used by the NSR, Geoscience Australia is enhancing the government’s ability to respond to disaster and activate appropriate financial assistance for recovery.

The Australian Topographic base map service is seamless national dataset coverage for the whole of Australia. The map is a representation of the Geoscience Australia 250k topographic specification and portrays a detailed graphic representation of features that appear on the Earth's surface. These features include cultural, hydrography and relief themes. The service contains layer scale dependencies.

This map shows the boundaries of the security regulated port for the purposes of the Maritime Transport & Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003. 2 sheets (Colour) 2 sheets (B & W) November 2007

On the 4th September 2010 at 4:35am a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred near Darfield in Canterbury, New Zealand. The associated fault ruptured towards Christchurch, which is New Zealand’s second largest city, and haswith a population of 350,000 people. The ground shaking was severe and critical infrastructure suffered widespread damage. The earthquake represented the most damaging earthquake event since the 3rd Feb 1931 Napier earthquake and has provided and excellent opportunity to gain a better understanding of New Zealand infrastructure vulnerability. The similarity of older legacy assets in Christchurch to those in Australia, many of which haves been retrofitted, has made this event of interest to Australia as well.

This short video summarises the value of Geoscience Australia's work to maintaining geoscience knowledge and capability for the nation, through applying its national infrastructure, extensive data collection and multidisciplinary skills. The video is from a series of six films produced to communicate Geoscience Australia's value to the nation. Further information about the agency's work in this area can be found at http://www.ga.gov.au/value-to-the-nation

Large scale map of Submarine Cables and Northern Protection Zone around Narrabeen, NSW, produced in January 2008 for the Australian Media and Communication Authority, Submarine Cable Projection Project. Dipicts cables including new Gondwana-1 cable, wrecks and reefs as supplied by ACMA. Developed from map produced in September 2007, GeoCat 65400. Intended for internal use by ACMA.

Since 2012, Geoscience Australia has been providing spatial support and advice to the Crisis Coordination Centre (CCC) within Emergency Management Australia (EMA) as part of our collaboration with the Attorney-General's Department. Geoscience Australia designed the Exposure Report to quickly provide exposure information for timely emergency response and recovery decision-making. This document describes the datasets and processes that create the Exposure Report

Diagram produced in Arcmap for the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), July 2006

This map shows the boundaries of the security regulated port for the purposes of the Maritime Transport & Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003. 1 sheet (Colour) 1 sheet (B & W) October 2007

This product is an aggregation of the Australian Exposure Information Platform (AEIP) by the Local Government Area (LGA), 2020 LGA boundaries. The aggregated information is from version 6 of the Australian Exposure Information Platform. In 2002 Geoscience Australia (GA) embarked on the development of the National Exposure Information System (NEXIS) project in response to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reform commitment on Australian’s ability to manage natural disasters and other emergencies. Public access to NEXIS has been limited to products based on Local Government Areas or ABS Statistical Areas. In 2013, the Bushfire and Natural Hazard Cooperative Research Centre, Geoscience Australia led a three year research project in collaboration with University of Melbourne and the University of Canberra, to document a comprehensive Natural Hazard Exposure Information Framework. The objective was to fully describe and categorise exposure information elements in a consistent framework to be used as a reference for developing future exposure information systems. In 2018, in partnership with the Bushfire & Natural Hazard CRC, Geoscience Australia has made available the Australian Exposure Information Platform (AEIP). The aim for AEIP was to make nationally consistent exposure information, directly accessible to key stakeholders involved in emergency management situation awareness, risk assessments, impact analysis research, and disaster management. The Platform combines the extensive work from NEXIS and the comprehensive ‘Natural Hazard Exposure Information Framework’, by providing user’s direct access to national Exposure Information. It includes 'elements' on building, businesses and people; public facilities and infrastructure assets; agricultural commodities, and environmental holdings within Australia. Exposure Reports provides a detailed statistical summary of the 'elements', within a user defined area of interest. The AEIP exposure information provides a summary of building and agricultural aggregated information. For more detailed building information, see NEXIS Building Exposure.