Class Outline

Environmental Response Management Application

Training Session

Michele Jacobi & Jill Bodnar Dec. 2009

Class Outline

• Overview/ background on ERMA• Review data found in ERMA• Show a few examples of ERMA

capabilities• Try an example scenario• Discuss next steps in development

and user needs

ERMA Background• ERMA was developed as a joint project

from the Coastal Response Research Center and NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration

• Caribbean ERMA was funded through EPA region 2

Continuum of “Response” for the OR&R

Emergency Response Division

(ERD)

Response(24 hours)

Restoration - Recovery(Years to Decades)

Assessment and Restoration

Division(ARD)

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words…• Diverse datasets

can be interlaced on a single map to better visualize a the complex nature of an area

Concept for ERMA Open Source, Web-based mapping tools

Planning & Analysis

Integrate & Analyze Information

Improved Communication & Coordination

ERMA Functional Requirements

• Easily accessible• Field, Command Post, External Offices

• Quick to display• Complementary to Digital ACP project,

and other systems; integrates ‘one-plan’ concept

• User friendly interface• For the non-GIS experts

• Secure, multi-tailored password protection• Public interface• Responder interface• Super-user interface

ERMA Capabilities• Various data types

• Static – Existing agency data lives on ERMA• Real-time – Streams into ERMA from external

servers (WMS, WFS)• Data upload & download

• Easy to share most up-to-date data via single interface

• Tools• On the fly map labeling • On the fly regions of interests• On the fly layers management

ERMA Schematic View

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ERMA Architecture

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Output to UserDownload/Upload Source

Sensitive datasets• Incident data• ACPs• SCAT Results• Trajectories• Etc….

Public datasets• ESI• Landuse• Bathymetry• Regional Monitoring• Habitat

Classifications

MapServer

Open Layers

Secure Server AuthenticationEncryption (128kb)

Other GIS Data• AIS• NowCoast• ENCs• Real Time Obs

Web Mapping Service (Feature)

Feature Server

PostGres/ PostGIS

Data Base

Data Layer ManagementAccess Privileges

ERMA Caribbean Area of Interest

Caribbean Collaboration Partners For ERMA

• NOAA• NOS- OCS, NCCOS, CSC,

ORR• NWS• NESDIS• NMFS

• U.S. EPA Region 2• USCG- District 7, Sector San

Juan • U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service• National Parks Service

• FL Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

• Puerto Rico • Department Natural

Resources• Environmental Quality

Board• Department of Planning

• Virgin Islands Department Natural Resources

• University Virgin Islands• British Virgin Island National

GIS Coordinator• Port Authority Isla Grande• National Response Corporation• Coral Bay Community Council• The Nature Conservancy

ArcMap Projects were Assembled

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Easy Internet Access to Data

Site Basics• Secure access

• Username/Password

• Various levels of access (Public, Responder, NRDA)

• Background Layers• Aerial, terrain,

roads• Nautical charts

• Incident information• Trajectories• Field teams• SCAT data

• Real-time feed• Weather, buoys,

ship tracking, etc.• Resources at Risk

• NOAA ESI data layers

• Local habitat and species datasets

• Document & photo links

•ESI and GRPs PDFs•Field Photos

• External links

Data Management and UserTools• Data Layer

Management• Access privileges• Legend creation• Metadata• Timeseries

• Upload/Download capacity• Shapefiles• PDFs• Photos (Photologger)

• Area of Interest• On-the-fly points,

lines, and polygons• Map Labels

• Measurement Tools• Length• Area

• Zoom To• Lat/Long• Place name

• Bookmark• Saves layers and

location• Print

• Timestamp• Various page

sizes

Practical Implementation of ERMA

• Assist with spill preparedness • Display jurisdictional boundaries,

specially regulated areas, areas of socio-economic importance

• Access points for cleanup• Staging areas and command centers• Regional documentation, points of

contact, etc.


• Assist in coordinating response efforts• Visualize magnitude and extent• Triage sites for action• Track progress of clean-up • Access real-time data• Upload data from the field and access

forms• Increase communication


• Define the extent of potential impacts• General habitat and land use

information• Areas of biological significance - haul

outs, rookeries, nesting grounds, essential or critical habitat

• Species-specific data - biological resources in the region - threatened or endangered?

• Where is there current monitoring data


• Assist in Recovery and Restoration• Access existing environmental

monitoring sites• Assist with sampling design• Inventory restoration projects• Locate long-term monitoring sites• Coordinate with regional projects

ERMA DATASETS

Digitized GRPs with data links

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Digitized GRPs with data links

Example Data: Environmental Sensitivity

Index Layers

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Example Data: Environmental Sensitivity

Index Layers

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NOAA Trajectory: 48 Hours

Trajectories can be updated over time and displayed with additional datasets like ESI

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Example Data: Environmental Quality- 303d

listed streams

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Example Data: EPA Regulated Facilities

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Real-time vessel traffic from AIS

Bioresources overlaid with charts

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Weather and Observation Buoys

Example Data: Forecasted Weather

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Photographs and Layer Updates posted

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Response data Updated & posted

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Spatial Data Layers• GRPs- (historic versions digitized and currently being

updated)• Environmental Sensitivity Index (PR

and VI)• Marine Protected Areas• Socio-economic features• Habitat Classifications• Regional specific data (ESA coral,

contaminant monitoring, ???)• Imagery• Navigation Charts (Raster/ Electronic)

• Weather Observations and Buoy Data

Next Steps for ERMA?• Caribbean ERMA • Enhance tools and print functions• Stand alone version for static data• Acquire more datasets????

• SONS exercise support in New England

• Puget Sound ERMA

For More Info

[email protected]@noaa.gov

https://caribbean.erma.unh.edu/

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