Esri Regional User Converence Nov 2 2010

Emergency Management BCMinistry of Public Safety and Solicitor General

Emergency Management BC’sCommon Operating Picture

ESRI Regional User Conference

Kristopher HayneBusiness Area Expert

Emergency Management BC, Emergency Coordination, Telecommunications and Specialty Systems

Nov 2, 2010

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Emergency Management Information Service (EMIS)

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Enhanced inter-agency communication and information sharing service to enable:

- the right people - to make the right decisions - at the right time; and - with the right information

EMIS Program Vision

Driver: 2010 Winter Olympics Public Safety Gap Analysis

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EMIS Program Objectives• Create a sustainable, common, coordinated

and consistent provincial service for management and sharing of emergency information

• Enable all agencies, ministries, local governments to more effectively plan for and respond to all types of emergencies, incidents and events

• Facilitate collaboration and interoperability across multiple agencies and jurisdictions

• Simple to implement, easy to use

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BC Emergency Event Map Viewer (BCeMAP)

Part of the GeoConnections Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System (MASAS)

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What is BCeMAP?

BCeMAP is Intended to Provide:

•Real time dissemination

•Common Operating Picture

•Access and dissemination

•Role Based

Multi – Agency Situational Awareness Tool

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Security Points of Interest, CI or Threat Data

2010 Olympic Venues

A002B070 A002B070

EMIS (Response & Recovery)

Common layer of location - based information that provides reference and context including EM data.

e.g. Muster Zones, DRR

Location - based infrastructureinformation of key sectors

e.g. Energy/utilities, transportation, Government facilities

2010 Venue Information

e.g. Transportation, Compétition/ non-compétition venues etc..

Involves the fusion of threat and hazard information

weather hazards

Involves the fusion of Security,

Critical Infrastructure and threat

e.g. BCAS, CBNRE Truck Locations

Viewing and dissemination of real - time and near real- time incident information.

e.g. resource locations,near real - time satellite imagery

Viewing and dissemination of real -time and near real- time incident information.

e.g. resource locations Incident Location Information

Base Base MappingMapping

DataData

Thematic Thematic Mapping Data Mapping Data

& CI& CI

Real Time Real Time Feeds (e.g. Feeds (e.g. Weather)Weather)

Viewing of Viewing of Real Time Real Time

Incident InfoIncident Info

• Common Operational Picture• Enhanced Situational Awareness• Strategic Planning• Operational Support• Better Consequence Management

BCeMAP = A Geospatial Data Mashup

Funded through GeoconnectionsMulti Agency Situational Awareness System (MASAS)

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Integration of Dynamic Data (Feeds)

Current Feeds:

• Env. Canada Weather Alerts

• DriveBC (road closure info)

• NRCan Earthquake Feeds

• EMIS – ETeam (EMBC)

• MoFR Wildfire Data

• National MASAS

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Use of Open Standards

GeoRSS & ATOM

Extensible Markup Language & OASIS

Canadian Profile of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP-CP)

Canadian EM Symbology

Multi-Agency Situational Awareness (MASAS)

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BCeMAP Architecture

10

Feed Aggregator

LRDW

Application Server (OAS/Apache/J2EE)

Feed Cache (Geodatabase)

WebBrowser

WebServicesTier

CorporateAuthentication

Program(SiteMinder)

BCeMap Application

Type A/BFeed

(Custom)

Map Server(ArcGIS Server)

Type CFeed

(CAP-CP)

WMS Services

Map Tile Cache

Geoprocessing Services

WMSService

SimpleGeoRSS

Feed

OtherGeospatialServices

GeoBC GeocoderArcGIS Online

MS Virtual EarthGoogle Maps

SourceTier

Earthquakes

JavaScript Map Viewer

Weather MapsBase Maps

Data Access Links(e.g. Streaming/Download)

OtherJavaScript APIs

Weather AlertsDriveBCBC HydroETeam

ComplexGeoRSS

Feed

HTTPS

WebADE/ADAM

IDIR/BCeIDAuthenitication

FMEWorkbench

Mapping Mapping Mapping

Mapping Mapping

CAP-CPGeoRSS

Role-basedAuthorizations

Web Service URIs (REST)

URIs

Base MapsStream Data

URIs URIs URIs URIs

MXD Files

Web Service URIs (REST)

Security Proxy ServletWebADEAPI

Home Page&

Static Content

Service/URIPreferences

HTTPGET

HTTPGET

JSAPIJSONWMS

CAP-CPGeoRSSWMS

ClientTier

ArcGIS ServerJavaScript API

ApplicationTier

Authentication and Browser (Security)

Application Server(BCeMAP)

Feed Aggregator (FME)ArcGIS Server

Data (Feeds, GeoBC LRDW)

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BCeMAP Future Initiatives

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CI Spatial Data QueryTool (CISQ)

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BCeMAP Partners & Stakeholders

BC Hydro

Capital Regional District

Fraser Valley Regional District

City of Vancouver

E-Comm

Department of National Defense

NC4

Environment Canada

New BrunswickEMO

GeoConnections

Ministry of Health Services

Ministry of Forests

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BCeMAP Challenges

• Information sharing agreements

• Information privacy

• Data maintenance and updating

• Dynamic feed integration

• External stakeholder buy-in

• Funding and resources

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Summary

• Emergency management is all about coordination and interaction across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries

• Technology is a fundamental enabler, but there are significant costs

• Most challenges are people and process

– Technology will fail if these issues aren’t addressed

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Thank You!

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