Building Great

Situational Awareness Apps Using ArcGIS Developer ToolsKerry Robinson

Eric Bader

Thomas Solow

Agenda

• Situational Awareness in ArcGIS

• Developing apps in connected environments

- ArcGIS Enterprise & JavaScript API

• Developing apps in disconnected environments

- Dynamic Situational Awareness Runtime Example App

• Q & A

What do we mean by Situational Awareness?

Perceive & Assess Awareness

Comprehend & Interpret

Understanding

Analyze Predict

The need for real-time Situational Awareness spans across…

Industries

• Humanitarian Aid /Disaster Relief

• Fire & Emergency Services

• Law Enforcement

• Homeland Security / Border Security

• Safe Communities

• Military Command & Control

• Cyber Security

• …

Organizational boundaries

• Individual

• Team

• Operation

• Organization / Agency

• Multi-Agency

• Multi-National

Plan & Prepare

Capture

Review

MonitorReport

Deploy

OperationsLifecycle

Plan & Prepare

Capture

Review

MonitorReport

Deploy

Situational AwarenessOperations

Lifecycle

Organizational Roles

Plan & Prepare

Deploy

CaptureReview

MonitorReport

• Field Operative (disadvantaged)

- On-foot

- In-vehicle

• Command Center

- Monitor / Supervisor

- Analyst

- Commander / Executive

• Support

- GIS Administrator

ArcGIS Enterprise and JavaScript API

Connected Environments

Real-Time Data Feedsobservations whose location and attributes change over time

Things that Move Stationary Sensors Things that Just Happen

• planes • vehicles

• satellites • storms

• animals

• water gauges

• weather stations

• traffic sensors

• air quality sensors

• IED Detonations

• 9-Line Medevac

• accidents

DesktopWeb Device

live & historic

aggregates & features

map & feature service

• Ingest high velocity real-time

data into ArcGIS.

• Perform continuous analytics

on events as they are received.

• Store observations in a

spatiotemporal big data store.

• Visualize high velocity &

volume data:

- as an aggregation

- or as discrete features.

• Notify about patterns of

interest.

stream service

live features

ArcGIS

Enterprise

GeoEvent

Server

ingestion

analytics

Real-Time & Big Data Capabilities

GeoAnalytics

Server

spatiotemporal

big data store

storage analytics

visualization

Real-Time Analytics with GeoEvent Server

What fishing vessels are inside designated ‘no fishing’ zones?

FeaturesContinuous

Analysis

Inside

Boundary

Vessel

Alert

Applications

Continuous processing on event data as it is received …

Demos

Dynamic Situational Awareness Runtime Example App

Disconnected Environments

What is the Dynamic Situational Awareness Example App?Available in April 2018 on GitHub

• Example App for developers writing solutions to meet Situational Awareness needs in

“DIL” (Disconnected, Intermittent, and Low Bandwidth) environments

• Key Characteristics:

- Team/Mission-oriented tasks

- Peer to Peer network

- Collaboration (reports, markup, share location)

- Alerts & notifications

- Analysis (Viewshed, Line of Sight)

- Local Data (no reliance on server)

- 3D

• Open Source – tweak to meet your needs

DSA-Vehicle DSA-Handheld Simulator

Dynamic Situational Awareness (DSA) Example App

Coord

Conv

Display

Messages

Markup

Interactive

Visibility Symbology GeoPackage Shapefile

Viewshed/

Line of Sight

Dynamic

Feature Layer

Local

Data

Alerts/

Geofencing

…

Basemap

Picker

Layer

List

GeoPackage Send

Location…

Tools

Runtime SDK

Example Apps

Initial Release (Qt): Apr 2018

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DSA-Vehicle DSA-Handheld Simulator

Dynamic Situational Awareness (DSA) Example App

Coord

Conv

Display

Messages

Markup

Interactive

Visibility Symbology GeoPackage Shapefile

Viewshed/

Line of Sight

Dynamic

Feature Layer

Local

Data

Alerts/

Geofencing

…

Basemap

Picker

Layer

List

GeoPackage Send

Location…

Runtime SDK

Example Apps

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Tools

Initial Release (Qt): Apr 2018

Runtime SDK /Platform

Example Apps DSA-Vehicle DSA-Handheld Simulator

Dynamic Situational Awareness (DSA) Example App

Coord

Conv

Display

Messages

Markup

Interactive

Visibility Symbology GeoPackage Shapefile

Viewshed/

Line of Sight

Dynamic

Feature Layer

Local

Data

Alerts/

Geofencing

…

Basemap

Picker

Layer

List

GeoPackage Send

Location…

DSA-Web

Coord

Conv

Drag n

Drop

Markup …Op

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TBD

… … …

Initial Release (Qt): Apr 2018

Tools

ArcGIS Runtime SDKs

Best Practices

Real-time Feeds“Messages” shared between team members in the field

• Receiving and Broadcasting message feeds over Peer-to-Peer network

• Examples of feeds:

- Friendly Position Reports, Contact Reports, Sensor Observations, …

• Best practices:

- Symbology (military or other)

- Performance

- Participating in other analyses

• Runtime API used:

- Graphics Overlay (Dynamic rendering mode)

- DictionaryRenderer

DemoReal-time feeds

Exploratory AnalysisGPU-based Viewshed & Line of Sight analysis

• “Exploratory”: visual only, using data & LOD rendered to screen (not “conclusive”)

• Two types:

- “Location” – based on coordinate

- “GeoElement” – tied to graphic or feature

• 360 Viewshed not officially supported until Runtime 100.3

• Runtime API Used:

- AnalysisOverlay

- LocationViewshed, GeoElementViewshed

- LocationLineOfSight, GeoElementLightOfSight

DemoExploratory Analysis

Alerts & ConditionsCritical notifications

• Alerting on conditions/rules against the real time feeds

• Conditions always evaluated

- Attribute

- Spatial / GeoFence

• Capabilities in App:

- View and manage list of alerts

- Create Conditions

- View and Manage Conditions

• Runtime API used:

- GeometryEngine

DemoAlerts & Conditions

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