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FEMA Region VIII GIS Common Operating Picture
Jesse RozelleFEMA Region VIII GIS Coordinator
FEMA Modeling Task Force [email protected]
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Defining Situational Awareness Requirements
What analytics do we need? Some examples
Primary List:Hazard ExtentPopulation ImpactsBuilding ImpactsCIKR (Critical Infrastructure/Key Resources) ImpactsTransportation Impacts
Secondary List:Mass Care RequirementsNFIP Impacts/CoverageOther?
We can create a very long list of potential impact analytics, but should we first all agree on basic, then extended lists?
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What is our goal?
• Situational awareness?• Expediting declarations?• Expediting IA rental assistance?• Expediting response resources?• Public outreach and risk communication?• Projecting long term economic impacts?
Defining Situational Awareness Requirements
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Is our disaster striking a small, rural town? Scale determines level of detail possible in the given timeframe.
Minot, ND 2011
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Is our disaster causing impacts across a state? If impacts are statewide, less detail is possible.
Colorado Floods, 2013
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Is our disaster causing devastating impacts across the entire east coast? For Hurricane Sandy, the level of detail for day 1 was lower than that of Minot, and
also required a full team of 8 experienced analysts.
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Weather Watches/Warning, Pre Activation Example
Is this level of situational awareness expected? If so, NWS is already providing the highest level of detail possible at this stage
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What does Situational Awareness Look Like? Various Product Formats
Operations Dashboard Viewer
GeoPlatform Viewer
Spreadsheet
Static (Paper) Maps
FEMA Automated COP
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Event Specific FEMA Operations Dashboard Viewer (Product #1)
Pros• Much simpler interface• Much smaller learning curve• Easily accessible analytics
Cons• Less detailed interactive
viewer capability
Proposed audience:• Planners• Emergency managers• Senior leadership• RRCC main projectors
Example available at: https://FEMA.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboard/index.html#/a12067dee40b431ab7a729ec3eb3a122
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Event Specific FEMA GeoPlatform Viewer (Product #2)
Pros• Full interactive web viewer
functionality• Ability to query, turn on/off specific
layers• Full access to all situational
awareness information• Fully transferable content to
State/local/OFA GIS departments• Fully documented section for
analysis methods (http://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=16055a012a4c4bfdb972c90e20b5e7b8)
Cons• Steeper learning curve• Derived analytics require manually
investigating various data layers
Proposed audience:• Analysts• Planners• Emergency managers
Example available at: http://arcg.is/1RwG67z
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Event Specific Impacts Spreadsheet(#3)
Full spreadsheet of all impacts, easily copied and pasted into reports
Proposed audience:• Analysts• Planners• Emergency managers• Senior leadership
Example available at: http://arcg.is/1RwG67z
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Event Specific Static Paper Maps (#4)
Pros• Easy to print• Can be inserted into documents
Cons• Not real time, often outdated
quickly• Take much longer to create,
degrading situational awareness product turnaround time
• Only portray one level of impacts per map
• Requires constant cycling of all products
• Promotes constant printing of outdated products
Proposed audience:• Planners• Emergency managers• Senior leadership
Standard R8 paper framework menu available here:
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FEMA Automated COP (#5)
Pros• Comprehensive real time
(daily) tracking of all FEMA program expenses by disaster
• Self updating for all open FEMA disasters
• Direct program linkages to IA, PA, Mitigation, and Finance databases
Cons• Available on FEMA intranet
only
Proposed audience:• FEMA program areas
FEMA Automated COP can be accessed here:
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• Provide all 5 product formats in one email (or web portal), to meet the requirements of all audiences
• Provide concise, simple “talking points” for senior leadership to get an overview on impacts
• This approach falls in line with FEMA HQ’s new approach to solving for the “Common Operating Picture” and implementing new technologies to provide analytics in support of situational awareness
National Solution Based on FEMA HQ COP Summit
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Current Challenges to R8 Geospatial Readiness
• Technical (IT)• Smart board in the RRCC is currently only functioning as a screen , touch capability is not
installed• New RRCC plotter driver has issues on many machines• RRCC video displays– can we collocate the GIS workstation in the RRCC to the same place
as the monitor display control (back corner), and give GIS the ability to control the RRCC monitors?
• Training • We would like to provide a 1 hour training in the RRCC each month to familiarize RRCC
staff with GIS products now available; this training will include• GIS viewers -GeoPlatform, Operations Dashboard• Paper map product formats and menu • Plotter printing, graphic file formats (PDF to JPG)• Google maps, NWS resources• FEMA Automated COP
• Process• Full email distribution lists at the onset of an event will speed our product delivery• Feedback on requirements and any limitations in our products provided during steady state
will help us better meet requirements• Please submit ALL GIS REQUESTS TO [email protected]. This ensures that
all requests are met expeditiously, regardless of who is in the office.
