GIS for Emergency Management in Maryland EMMA: Emergency Management Mapping Application

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GIS for Emergency Management in Maryland EMMA
Emergency Management Mapping Application

• Matt Felton
• Associate Director, Center for GIS
• Towson University

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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 PDAs, laptops, desktop
  computers, and wireless networks)

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EMMA Functionality

• Provides tools to
• Identify an incident location
• Generate a location report
• Visualize an incident location
• Analyze an impacted area
• Coordinate resources

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Create Your Own Map
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Interoperability

• EMMA was built using industry standards
• ESRIs ArcIMS development environment for
  creating interactive Web maps
• ESRIs ArcSDE relational database management
  system
• Open GIS Consortiums 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
  www.marylandgis.net)
• Geospatial One Stop
• Database driven
• Can share information with other software for
  reporting across multiple platforms

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What EMMA is Not

• EMMA is neither a database nor a data repository
• EMMA is not incident management software

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Getting Data into EMMA

• EMMA Version 1
• Accesses currently available, public information
  (theres 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

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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)

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EOC
Federal Data Sets
County EOC
Hot Back-up
Emergency Response Community
SOC
GOS
Maryland Secure Intranet
DMIS (Interoperability)
COTS (Incident Management Tools)
County 1
Web Service
EMMA (Geospatial)
County 2
Metadata Server/Explorer
Web Service
County n
Data Warehouse
Web Service
Regional Council
Web Service
State Agency 1
City 1
Web Service
City 2
State Agency 2
Web Service
City n
State Agency n
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Summary

• 1. Identify incident location
• (Field to EOC communication)
• 2. Generate location report
• (EOC to field communication)
• 3. Visualize incident location
• (Integrate multiple data sets into one view)
• 4. Analyze impacted area
• (Perform simple, powerful GIS analysis)
• 5. Coordinate resources
• (Real time, resource allocation and tracking)

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Questions?

• Matt Felton
• Associate Director, Technical Services
• Center for GIS
• Towson University
• mfelton_at_towson.edu
• [phone]