 Climate (13) - Organizations or programs that study the average course or condition of the weather at a place over a period of years as exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation.
- Communications (2)
- Organizations or programs that study various forms of auxiliary communications technology (such as portable repeaters, cellular, PCS, radio and satellite equipment, etc.) for use by public service agencies or communities in times of disaster.
- GIS (11)
- Organizations or programs that study Geographical Information Systems (GIS) that assemble, store, manipulate, and display geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations.
- Information Technology (4)
- Organizations and programs that study the development and deployment of applications and systems for disaster management such as computer networks, databases, operating systems, and information requirements.
- Insurance (2)
- Organizations or programs that provide insurance policies or information on risks for various types of disasters affecting personal and business property.
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- Mapping (18)
- Organizations or programs that study state of the art digital photogrammetric techniques (typically via software systems) and apply them to the identification and mitigation of impacts from natural hazards.
- Medicine (5)
- Organizations or programs that study the advancement, understanding and delivery of disaster medical care and humanitarian assistance.
- Meteorology (4)
- Organizations or programs that study the atmosphere and its phenomena regarding the weather, weather forecasting, and its role in creating natural disasters.
- Space (9)
- Organizations or programs that study the use of outer space as a venue from which to understand and predict natural disasters (i.e., remote sensing technologies.)
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