GIS for Emergency Management in MarylandEMMA: Emergency Management Mapping Application

John M. Morgan, III, PhD.Director

Matt FeltonAssociate Director

© 2004 Towson University

LOCALREGIONAL

STATENATIONAL

• Minor Traffic Incidents

• Traffic Crashes• Minor Load Spills• Vehicle Fires• Minor Train/Bus Accidents

• Accidents w/ Injuries

• 0 - 2 HOURS

• Train Derailment• Major Bus/Rail Transit Accidents

• Major Truck Accidents

• Multi-vehicle Crashes

• Hazmat Spills• Some Casualties & Fatalities

• 2 - 24 HOURS

• Terrorist Attack/WMD• Floods, blizzards• Transportation

Infrastructure Collapses• Extended power/water

outage• Large Riots• Mass Casualties

• WEEKS

Classifications

EXAMPLES

EXPECTEDEVENT

DURATION

• Port/Airport Incidents

• Large Building Fire or Explosion

• Industrial Incidents

• Major Tunnel or Bridge Closure

• DAYS

• Coordination Complexity• State & Federal Involvement

Public Preparedness

Incident Scale/ Public Preparedness

•Train Crashes•Airplane Crashes•Hazmat Incidents•Multi-vehicle Accidents•Tunnel Fires•Major Casualties & Fatalities•Tornadoes

•DAYSCopy with permission, Maryland Department of Transportation

Incident Scale / Public Preparedness

County GIS

Public Schools

Health

Transit

Public Works

Law Enforcement

Fire/ EMS

MDP/ Property

ViewADC

MIEMSS/ CHAT

MIEMSS/ FRED

MDOT/ CHART

MSP/ MVERS

MEMA CID

DLLR

MIEMSS/ TRIAGE DNR

MSP/ MCAC MDE

EMMA(Turning Information

into Knowledge)

MEGIN(Turning Local Data

into Information)

Regional/StateWebEOC

Federal Applications (DMIS/ASSOCC)(Turning Knowledge into coordinated

Action - Collaboration)

Access Data

Incident Management

Tools

Collaboration across jurisdictional/ agency

boundaries

Other

Blue 292 RamSafe

Local National

JREIS

Geodata. gov

Federal LE Data

Share InformationCreate Knowledge

Data Repositories

Conceptual Data Network Architecture

What is EMMA?

• Software that provides the ability to create dynamic maps using a data from multiple sources including real-time

• Can be accessed from any Web or secure network accessible device

• “Thin Client” that only needs a network connection and a browser(Internet Explorer)

• Scaleable (runs on PDA’s, laptops, desktop computers, and wireless networks)

EMMA Development

• CGIS has been developing Web mapping applications using ESRI’s ArcIMS for over 3 years

• CGIS’ effort to develop EMMA began in June 2003• CGIS initially developed EMMA without State agency funding of any

kind• EMMA represents the application of Web mapping tools previously

developed by CGIS for emergency management/homeland security purposes

• EMMA was tested during the Hurricane Isabel emergency by CGIS staff who provided 24/7 volunteer GIS support to the State’s Emergency Operations Center

EMMA Functionality

Identify an incident location- Field to EOC communication Generate a location report- EOC to field communicationVisualize an incident location- Integrate multiple data sets into one viewAnalyze an impacted area- Simple, powerful GIS analysisCoordinate resources- Real time, resource tracking

Create Your Own Map

Interoperability

• EMMA was built using industry standards …– ESRI’s ArcIMS development environment for creating interactive Web maps– ESRI’s ArcSDE relational database management system– Open GIS Consortium’s WMS standard for Web mapping interoperability– XML

• Related federal and state agency GIS initiatives– National Map– Homeland security map symbol set– Federal Geographic Data Committee Metadata Clearinghouse (Maryland

Mapping Resource Guide http://www.marylandgis.net)– Geospatial One Stop

• Database driven– Can share information with other software for reporting across multiple

platforms

What EMMA is Not

• EMMA is neither a database nor a data repository

• EMMA is not incident management software

Getting Data into EMMA

• EMMA Version 1 – Accesses currently available, public information (there’s a lot

of data out there!)

• EMMA Version 2– Will access information through the

Maryland Emergency Geographic Information Network (MEGIN) by providing Google-like searches of geospatial metadata

City 1

City 2

City n

County n

County 2

County 1

RegionalCouncil

WebService

WebService

WebService

WebService

MetadataServer/Explorer

DataWarehouse

HotBack-up

State Agency 1

State Agency 2

State Agency n

WebService

WebService

Federal Data Sets County EOCEOC

SOC

MarylandSecure Intranet

GOS

EMMA(Geospatial)

DMIS(Interoperability) COTS

(Incident

Management Tools)

EmergencyResponseCommunity

What Kind of Data Can be Used with EMMA?

• Federal, state, regional, and local government agency geospatial data currently in GIS format

• Federal, state, regional, and local government agency non-geospatial databases that include addresses or linear referencing (can be converted to GIS format)

• Real-time, place-specific data “served” by public and private sources (meteorological data, traffic cameras, hospital status, stream gauges)

• Private geospatial data (ADC Digital Maps, AWS meteorological data)

City 1

City 2

City n

County n

County 2

County 1

RegionalCouncil

WebService

WebService

WebService

WebService

MetadataServer/Explorer

DataWarehouse

HotBack-up

State Agency 1

State Agency 2

State Agency n

WebService

WebService

Federal Data Sets

County EOCEOC

SOC

MarylandSecure IntranetGOS

EMMA(Geospatial)

DMIS(Interoperability) COTS

(Incident Management

Tools)

EmergencyResponse

Community

Maryland Emergency Geographic Information Network(MEGIN)

EMMA Version 1.0 vs. 2.0

Fall 2005August 31, 2004Timeline

Distributed (MEGIN)CentralizedArchitecture

Multiple layers of securitySimpleSecurity

IntegratedCompanionsInteroperability

New web services, county / regional / local data via MEGIN

Currently available, low risk, State agency data

Data

Incorporate MSGIC User Needs Assessment requirements

Currently available functionality

Functionality

Version 2.0Version 1.0

The Future of EMMA

• Improvements to EMMA being considered by CGIS include …– Development of an “executive” viewer with pre-defined maps and

reports– Integration of other (advanced) geospatial software tools, such as

geofencing and plume modeling– Integration with other software tools, particularly data mining– Closer integration with other emergency management software

applications (DMIS, CIMS)– Improved security– Additional data sets

Questions?

Matt FeltonAssociate Director

mfelton@towson.edu(410) 704-5292

John M. Morgan, III, PhDDirector

mfelton@towson.edu(410) 704-5292

Towson University Center for Geographic Information Sciences

Maryland Mapping Resource Guidehttp://www.MarylandGIS.net/interoperability