Consequences Assessment Tool Set (CATS)

Technical Specifications

The Consequences Assessment Tool Set (CATS) provides a comprehensive package of emergency management decision aids including hazard prediction models (natural hazards and technological hazards) and casualty and damage assessment tools. It also accepts real time data from local meteorological stations.

The tool set is supplied with over 150 data bases and map layers. These include the location of resources to support response to specific hazards, infrastructure objects and facilities (communications, electric power, oil and gas, emergency services, government, transportation, water supply), a variety of population breakouts and much more. It also offers the user the opportunity to add data for custom analysis.

Developed for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), CATS is now available to Federal, State, and local government emergency response organizations nationwide.