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PALMETTO VISION (Integrating UICDS, IPAWS and vUSA)

The goal of this effort is a county-centric Emergency Management Common Operating Picture (EM-COP) framework that provides ESF personal consistent processes, tools, in order to more effectively plan and respond to real-time events.

Presentation prepared by:Phillip Armijo – Director of ProgramsRobert Zawarski – Chief Technology OfficerEarth Technology Integration (ETI)parmijo@earthtechint.comzawarski@earthtechint.com

Information sharing leads to improved situational awareness (SA) and a common operational picture (COP) that can be seamlessly updated.

SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

3

DHS UNIFIED INCIDENT COMMAND DECISION SUPPORT (UICDS)

IPAWS ALERTS AND UICDS APPLICATION INTEGRATION

UICDS provides

IPAWS compliant CAP Alerts

from Multiple

Applications to IPAWS

UICDS receives IPAWS CAP Alerts and Notifies Multiple Applications that the Alert was Made

Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) Middleware

UICDS Compliant Incident

Management Application

UICDS Compliant Sensor or Location

Application

UICDS Compliant Critical

Infrastructure Application

UICDS Compliant Resource,

Personnel, SOP Application

UICDS Compliant Geospatial Map

Viewer Application

3. AuthorizeFeed

End-User Geospatial

ViewerEnd-User

Geospatial Viewer

1. Register Incident Feed Incident – Map – ICS Structure - SOPs

Sensors – Alerts – Resources – Plans

Geospatial Data

Source

Virtual USAGeospatial Catalog and

Access Control

Geospatial Data

Source

1. Publish Feed Catalog2. RequestFeed2. Provide

Feed

1. RegisterFeed

Geospatial Data

Source

UICDS Directory Service Data Sources1. Publish

Feed Catalog

2. Select Incident-Relevant Feed

3. Request Incident-Relevant Feed

2. Provide Feed

2. Update UICDS Work Products

with Selected Feed Data in

Standard Format

4. Provide Updated Feed to vUSA Clients

End-User Geospatial

Viewer

Data Sharing Between UICDS and Virtual USA

3. AuthorizeFeed

3. Share Standard Format with Many UICDS Applications

UICDS Middleware

vUSA Interface OperationsUICDS Consumer Interface OperationsUICDS Provider Interface OperationsData Source Interface Operations

Key

UICDS CORE

ETI’S FRONT

END GUI*

IPAWS OPEN 2.0

WEB EOC*

EM-COPGOOGLEEARTH*

ESRI ARC TOOLS**

PICTOMETRY VIEWER**

*The main focus of the Beta Test is to validate the selection of UICDS and IPAWS as the data exchange backbone of the Palmetto Vision framework. The baseline toolset demonstrates a broad range of the systems initial capabilities.

**Viewing the data can be accomplished using a range of different front end software tools. As the Palmetto Vision system evolves additional front end interfaces will be connected to the UICDS Core.

END USER APPLICATIONS

APPLICATION INTEGRATION

PALMETTO VISION - A Spoke-and-Hub Design

Project Overview:• Hub server installed at State Emergency Operating Center (SEOC)• 30 servers deployed to County Emergency Operating Center’s (CEOC)• South Carolina National Guard (SCNG) 1 server and 7 workstations• Oct 12th Beta Testing starts• Oct 20th Working Group meets to establish when system goes from Beta to Operational• Palmetto Vision has been recognized by SAIC, the developers of UICDS, and DHS for size,

scope and uniqueness of it's UICDS implementation• South Carolina will be one of the first to implement a state-wide IPAWS system allowing

every county access to the full-range of IPAWS-OPEN 3.0 capabilities.• DHS's Virtual USA is integrated into the Palmetto Vision network to seamlessly share data

to every county as well as out to the state and federal level.

Displaying Data within COP:• Infrastructure

• Federal Level – HSIP Freedom• State – DOT (Traffic Cams), DHEC, SCGIS, and Forestry Commission• County – GIS Departments

• Vehicle tracking – Blue Force Tracking, AFF, Outerlink, and FleetMatics• Personnel tracking – FlexTrain, cell phone GPS apps• EMD Specific 911 calls• Live video streaming – tablets, cell phones, county buildings, and schools

WEBEOC – ADJUST THE MAP, ONE MOUSE CLICK

Location Address Icon Latitude/Longitude

UICDS – A NEW INTERFACE

Current Icon

Event information

Download KML

TASKS

A) Associate Files to a specific IncidentB) Share Incident out to other serversC) Push Incident information through vUSA

D) Supports Red Cross Shelter XML schemaE) WebEOC to IPAWS CAP message

UICDS – SHARING OUT THE INCIDENT

Select the checkbox(s) and click on Apply.

UICDS – ASSOCIATING FILES

Fill in the URL

Click on Map

UICDS – A WEBEOC INCIDENT IN THE COP

Dynamic KML file consistently updates as new information is associated with an Incident

The Tree displays: Computer name, incident, board name, and event

HSIN – DATASETS & WEATHER

Icons are from the HSIP Communication data layer

Blue and green shapes are from National Radar Mosaic

EAGLE VISION SATELLITE IMAGERY

When there’s a Presidential Disaster Declaration, South Carolina's National Guard Eagle Vision program will shoot satellite images of the affected areas and those images will be displayed in the COP. Each county will be able to download each image for further analysis.