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Situational Awareness
& Common Operating Picture
A new tool available soon through HSEM
March 31, 2010
Emergency Management
GIS in MN
HSEM Lead; MnGeo Assists
State, Federal &
Other GIS Partners
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• Existing SEOC GIS
Workgroup
• Assists SEOC in
GIS Planning &
Technology
Projects
• Focus is
interoperation
with SEOC
Liaison
Reps
MnGeo Lead; HSEM Assists
GIS Professionals
Interested in
Emergency
Management
• A New Group
• May choose to
assist local
governments
Cross-Over: Events/Incidents/Exercises/Training
Common Operating Picture Mechanisms:
• HSIN-MN Portal: GIS COIs (Still in Process)
• Service-driven Geospatial Viewer
• DLAN & DLAN GIS: Internal to SEOC
Business Need
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Current information
Specific to homeland security and emergency
management
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Geospatial relational understanding
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Driven by consumed GIS services
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Configurable for various situations
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Customizable for various audiences
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Secure, if required
Service-based,
Federated Approach
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Hardware at DPS carries little data
Services pushed out by agency partners are
consumed by viewer
Service ‘owners’ maintain data
HSEM/SEOC may also create and publish
services – later phase
Approach
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Fast-track ‘skunkworks’ initially
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Phased approach
– Phase 1
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Development/Limited Roll-out: NOW
– Phase 2
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Services Discovery and Build-out: Parallel
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Widget Discovery and Build-out: Parallel
– Phase 3:
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DLAN Connection through DLAN-Published Feeds
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Remote reporting and interaction
Public/Private
Partnership
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State Emergency Operations Center GIS
Working Group
ESRI
– Especially Dan Falbo and Evan Marshall
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MnGeo
In near-real-time
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River/stream gauge data
Road status from MnDOT and select
counties
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NWS Weather Products
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More to come!
The Result
Technology Used
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ESRI Flex-based COP Viewer Template
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Virtual Windows 2008 Server
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ArcGIS Server Enterprise Standard
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ArcSDE Server
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ArcInfo / ArcCatalog
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Physical Microsoft SQL Server 2008e
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Existing DPS Network
Future Plans
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Addition of more services to accommodate
our partners
Expanded use of widgets and custom
widget development
Better KML/KMZ capability
A second viewer integrated into DisasterLAN
– using SilverLight technology
Redundancy and Fail-over
High Priority Need
A
New
Name!
Questions?
John K. Blood
Senior Planner, DLAN/Operations
[email protected]
651-201-7449