Emergency Response through Collaborative Crisis Management

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1 Emergency Response through Collaborative Crisis Management Bojan Cestnik Temida d.o.o. Ljubljana Slovenia Artur Rocha INESC Porto Porto Portugal Martin Endig IFF Magdeburg Germany

2 Contents Information technology and crisis management Collaborative crisis management in MEDSI GIS and geospatial interoperability Symbology and information fusion Conclusion

3 Introduction Advancing the field of crisis management in Europe Information as a resource The right information to the right people at the right time Integration from various sources in a meaningful way EU FP6 project MEDSI Employ modern IT to increase preparedness to respond in emergency situations

4 Relationship: damage - time Damage d4 d3 d2 d Turn-out time (min) Source: Swedish Rescue Service Agency, Karlstad, Risc Management Division

5 MEDSI partners

6 Collaborative Crisis Management Several organizations involved under coordination of Crisis Center Police Firemen Emergency Health&Care... other civilian organizations Hospitals Municipalities Meteorology Service Organizations need to act coordinately Exchange information Understand each others information Know real-time sensor data

7 Collaborative Crisis Management Requirements for collaborative crisis management distributed access to external data sources for real-time data using web services for regular data e.g: number of available beds in a Hospital e.g: water level provided by sensor networks using Open Geospatial Consortium (OCG) compliant implementations for GI e.g: meteorology /environmental information backed up by a large local repository for static data... some managed by MEDSI other uploaded to the crisis center upon agreement with the responsible organization

8 Collaborative Crisis Management Requirements for collaborative crisis management (cont.) distributed work environment also inside the crisis center need for workflow support need to freeze and share a view of the work environment including GI views! common understanding of symbology symbology generator based on metadata descriptions

9 Interoperable GI Access Use of an OGC compliant WMS and WFS client to access external geo-data sources but also internal geo-data sources Finding registered data sources by means of a Catalog Service Currently, MEDSI prototype is accessing data from a deegree server a GeoMedia (Intergraph) server a UMN MapServer

10 Interoperable GI Access I Crisis Management Center MEDSI rich client Other EM Specific Tools Symbology Generator WMS&WFS Client Analysis Tools Planning Tools Catalog Browser External GI Providers MEDSI server side OGC Web Feature Server File Upload Service OGC Web Feature Server OGC Web Map Server Catalog Service Geo-data Sources E.g.: Environmental/Weather Monitoring Service Uploaded Geo-data MEDSI DB (geocoded objects) Orthophotos/ Raster Data Other Web Services OGC Web Map Server Geo-data Sources E.g.: Satellite Imagery Service

11 Interoperable GI Access II WMS / WFS 1 MEDSI Schema Geo Data Info Sources View Management Catalog Catalog Symbology Symbology Operations Operations Reports Reports Planning Planning Analysis Analysis Administration Administration Information Information Collection Collection Dissemination Dissemination Web Services Communication Communication Web Service Common Alerting Protocol

12 Interoperable GI Access

13 Symbology Representation of objects on the map point, line, area, volume Information content of a map with symbols cognitive methods, information overload Information fusion simplification generalization symbolization

Minimize symbol confusion Additional information with

14 Symbology Symbol components: Principles: Stored icons (32x32), generated symbols Commonly used symbols Minimize symbol confusion Additional information with graphic operations Example: blurred symbol for uncertainty

15 Overview of modern trends I OGC ( SMS (Style Management Service): mapping from features to parametrized symbols SLD (Styled Layer Descriptor): XML based descriptor Kent State University, Ohio (U. Dymon) Symbology analysis Theoretical framework for designing emergency mapping symbols State university of New York at Buffalo (A. Bisantz et al.) Cognitive approaches to symbology aiming at increasing human performace Information content of a map - information overload, data fusion, information fusion Approaches to dynamic symbol design Evaluation based on experiments

16 Overview of modern trends II Approach to standardization United States Department of Agriculture (2004): Standard Geospatial Symbology

17 Symbology Basic icons browser:

18 Symbology Generated symbols I:

Symbology Generated symbols II: Sport F Industry F Athletics Bernabeu Factory Paint Bruguer First level Second level Third level Speciality Name Activities Documents Equipment Events Files Imagery

19 Symbology Generated symbols II: Sport F Industry F Athletics Bernabeu Factory Paint Bruguer First level Second level Third level Speciality Name Activities Documents Equipment Events Files Imagery Organizations People Places Relationship Airport facilities Harbour facilities General civil facilities Cultural facilities Mass media facilities Free time facilities Sport facilities Telecommunications facilities Firms facilities Electrical facilities Railway facilities Governmental facilities Hydraulic facilities Hydroelectric facilities Industrial facilities International facilities Law facilities Military facilities Oil bearing facilities Police facilities Chemical facilities Religious facilities Medical facilities Firemen facilities Natural spaces

20 Symbology ontology Atmosphere (Objects, Events, Processes) Ocean (Objects, Events, Processes) Hydrology Surface hydrology (Objects, Events, Processes) Groundwater (Objects, Events, Processes) Terestrial ecology Plants (Objects, Events, Processes) Animals (Objects, Beeings, Events, Processes) Urban Ecology, environment (Physical objects; Individual living beeings; Social entities; Events, incidents; Processes) Sociology, people, citizen (PISEP) Economics, commercial (PISEP) Administration, law (PISEP) Transportation Objects or substances moved (PISEP) Modes of transport (Rail; Road; Sea, lake, river; Air) Fixed infrastructure nodes (PISEP) Fixed infrastructure links (PISEP)

21 Symbology Demo symbol transparency

22 Conclusion Collaborative crisis management in MEDSI Web services: from external datasources to sensor networks interfacing The issue of data ownership: legislative framework, standardization Symbology: cognitive view, ontology, standards Further work: next iteration within MEDSI Symbology line, area, volume dynamic symbol generation

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