Public Safety and Security Directions GIAC Web Cast June 09

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Public Safety and Security DirectionsGIAC Web
Cast June 09

• Program Advisor, Public Safety and Security
• Philip Dawe

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Contents

• Program Overview
• Public Safety and Security Focus
• Advisory Committee
• Structure
• Early Feedback
• Project Coordination
• Opportunities
• Questions

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GeoConnections Priorities

• Public Safety and Security
• Public Health
• Environmental Sustainable Development
• Matters of Importance to Aboriginal Communities

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GeoConnections Focus
GeoConnections will be end-user driven to

• Build applications that serve specifically
  targeted communities of practice
• Provide the framework and other thematic data
  with attributes prioritized by these communities
  of practice
• Maintain, operate and expand the core
  infrastructure and standards, as required by
  users
• Support consistent geomatics policy development
  federally and nationally to reduce duplication
  and improve use of the CGDI

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Canadian GeoSpatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI)
Aboriginal Land Claims
Sustainable Community Planning
Environmental Indicators
Access
Population Health Trends
Disease Surveillance
Technology Innovation
Standards
Policy
Disaster Management
Emergency Response
Frameworks
Intl-Federal-Provincial Collaboration
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Public Safety and Security Focus

• Public Safety and Security is a priority for
  GeoConnections due to
• Threats that have the potential to undermine
  security and safety of Canadians
• There is an increasing need for
  inter-jurisdictional co-operation and horizontal
  and vertical sharing of information to deal
  effectively with public safety and security
  threats
• Location-based information is emerging as a key
  resource for coordinating and assisting agencies
  in making crucial decisions related to public
  safety and security
• Key areas of interest of focus include critical
  infrastructure identification, situational
  awareness, and assisting with the management of
  consequences

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Potential Projects from the October 2005 AO

• 7 Public Safety and Security projects selected
  for Contribution Agreements
• 1 with a Federal organization, focused on the
  exchange and integration of location-based
  information
• 3 with Provincial Emergency Management
  Organizations, allowing situational awareness
  and the management of consequences for
  significant events
• 3 at local government/regional levels involving
  partnerships with multiple organizations that
  leverage emergency management programs and focus
  on incident location mapping, emergency
  management reports and spatial analysis of
  affected areas
• Total project costs of 3.0M, with just over 1M
  in funding provided directly by GeoConnections

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Priorities and Initiatives in Public Safety

• 4 Key Priorities
• Public Safety and Security Advisory Committee
  convened for the first meeting March 16, 2006
  second meeting June 1st, 2006
• Outreach and Awareness (conferences and
  workshops)
• Project Coordination, funding priorities,
  connecting CGDI components
• Developing a RoadMap strategy document with
  advisory committee input on priority areas of
  focus

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User Community
Federal Emergency Organizations
Provincial Emergency Organizations
Local Emergency Organizations
Public Safety Security User Community
General Public
International
Critical Infrastructure Industry
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Common Requirements

• Incident Management is required across the entire
  user community
• Information integration vertically/horizontal in
  user community
• Real-time information sources (imagery, sensor,
  temporal)

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• User Centered Design Methodology

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Advisory Committee
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Interim Public Safety Security Advisory
Committee
Natural Hazards
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Provincial Emergency Management
Public Safety and Security Advisory Committee
Federal Emergency Management
Local Emergency Management
Academic Research
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RoadMap for Public Safety and Security

• 1 Year from Now
• Web-based applications at the local, regional,
  provincial and federal level
• Regional data content being used in applications
• 2-3 Years from Now
• Inter-agency integrated Canada wide community of
  practice
• Gaps in data content will be more apparent and
  more awareness on timeliness of data
• 3-5 Years from Now
• National situation awareness in real-time
  including operational information for first
  responders
• Warehousing and networking in a secure environment

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Advisory Committee Feedback

• Priority
• Information Exchange architecture to link
• operational applications to data and
• facilitate data exchange that also addresses
• privacy, security and trust

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Current Situation
Source (Becking, 2006 Emergency Response
Security)
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Concept for GeoInfoExchange
Source (Becking, 2006 Emergency Response
Security)
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Advisory Committee Feedback

• Priority
• Data inventory and model that is composed of a
  data awareness exercise to determine information
  inventory and to define and agree on a data model
  for Critical Infrastructure Protection

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Definition of Critical Infrastructure Protection

• Critical infrastructure protection can be
  defined as actions and programs that
• identify the critical infrastructure and its
  specific components (human, physical and cyber)
• assess vulnerabilities
• take mitigative or protective measures to reduce
  vulnerabilities
• Source (PSEPC 2006, Keep Canadians Safe)

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• Critical Infrastructure Protection - Information
  Usage

• Situational awareness of infrastructure
  interconnections
• Geospatial based analysis of high risk areas
• Provides a foundation for information needed in
  response and recovery

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Project Directions
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• BC Forest Service Resource Management for
  Emergency Response

Forest Fire Emergency Resource Coordination
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Environmental Emergencies Management System (E2MS)
E2MS integrates interoperable data sources in
real-time
Common Operating Picture (COP)
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Dealing with Flooding

• Floods are the most costly natural disaster in
  Canada in terms of property damage
• Saguenay Region of Quebec 1996 1.5 billion worth
  of damages
• Affects hundreds of thousands of Canadians
• About 40 happens in April and May, which
  coincides with the snowmelt period throughout
  much of southern Canada
• Provincial Emergency Management Organization user
  community has identified requirements in this area

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Situational Awareness (SA) on disaster effects
Decision Support for Flood Event Prediction and
Monitoring Objective to enable the public to
recognize and accept responsibility for decisions
affecting their safety and security, by providing
access to near real-time flood information,
relevant to their location and situation. Approac
h Augment existing hydrometric monitoring
system, with web-based sensor technology to
provide a decision support tool with flood risk
mapping, local real-time water level monitoring,
and flood modeling and prediction.
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Assisting with the Management of Consequences

• Emergency Situation Awareness Application for
  Coordinated Emergency
• Objective develop and implement a tool that will
  improve decision making during emergency
  incidents, which in turn can reduce the impact of
  emergency situations on people, property and
  communities.
• Approach The system will provide two way
  interconnectivity between owners, developers,
  managers of the information and emergency
  management groups to enable quicker exchange of
  and sharing of information vertically through
  different levels of government and horizontally
  across each of those layers of government.

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National Information Exchange
EOC
City EOC
Emergency Response Community
SEOC
Discovery Portal
Hot Back-up
Secure Intranet
Federal Data Sets
Incident Management
NB EMO 1
Web Service
Geo Information Exchange
Regional EMS
(Geospatial Tools)
Web Service
Provincial EMS
Federal/Data Warehouse
Web Service
Regional EMS
Web Service
Provincial EMS
PSEPC
Web Service
Web Service
Canada Command
City n
DND Canada Command
Private Utility System
Municipal EMS
(Modified from (2005 Morgan Felton, Maryland
Emergency Geographic Information Network)
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Opportunities
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Potential Application Opportunities
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Potential Data Content Opportunities
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Potential Data Content Opportunities
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Summary

• GeoConnections is focused on addressing end-users
  requirements for decision support
• Advisory committee/user community are providing
  valuable feedback to GeoConnections
• Working towards a data and application framework
  that will facilitate national information
  exchange

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Contact Information

• Philip Dawe
• Program Advisor, Public Safety Security
• 613.943.4238
• philip.dawe_at_nrcan.gc.ca