Web site: Natural hazards and emergency response

This program assists in the mitigation of natural hazards and is intended to reduce the loss of life and economic costs of all natural disasters in Canada.

To reduce losses from natural hazards, the program works with national and international partners and clients to produce: a modern robust analysis of seismic risk, suitable for developing a modern building code; effective forecasts of magnetic storms and mitigation strategies against damage to electrical grids, satellite communication and pipelines; and landslide, tsunami (tidal wave), flood- and volcano-hazard inventories and assessments, used to build effective response scenarios and disaster mitigation for populated centres at risk.

Emergency-response programs are enhanced by providing them with comprehensive digital and custom maps for emergencies, integrated hazard and infrastructure information, and the capacity to measure radiation contamination from accidental dispersal or potential terrorist acts.

The Aeronautical Charting Program is responsible for the production of Canada's official aeronautical information charts and publications for military and civil aviation institutions, in support of Nav Canada and Department of National Defence operations.

Under the auspices of the International Boundary Commission, this partnership program with the United States of America serves to maintain the international boundary line and vista. Boundary maintenance involves inspection, monument restoration and maintenance, resurveying and vegetation clearing. These responsibilities, along with the regulation of activities within the vista, and providing advice to government on disputed areas, form the basis for a Joint Annual Report.

Increased border security measures require that boundary maintenance and clearing will concentrate in the most populated areas along the Quebec-New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine boundaries, and along the British Columbia-Washington boundary.