During the past several years, ESRI’s technology has been embedded in a number of common operating picture (COP) technologies including ESRI business partner solutions such as ESI’s WebEOC, ETeam, Emergeo, and Prevestar. In addition, many custom command and control applications have been developed through the commercial joint mapping toolkit operated by NGA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). One of these is iCAV (Integrated Common Analytic Viewer), a geospatial-intelligence analytical tool associated with DHS's Geospatial Information Infrastructure Division. iCAV, is in use at the National Operations Center for Situational Awareness and Decision Support. It is intended to unite Homeland Security partners including state and local government to provide a geospatial context for HLS-related activities nationwide to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from natural and man-made disasters.
In addition, at ArcGIS 9.3, a very significant technology improvement (REST APIs with JavaScripting and mashups) opens up ArcGIS Server for rapid development and integration of geoservices into COP situations. A prototype of this will be demonstrated at the User Conference showing the following:
This application was developed in a few weeks by ESRI prototype staff. The concept is to show how fast it is to develop new Web-based situational awareness environment using ArcGIS Server blended with a variety of other Web services, either within the enterprise or on the Web.
The components for constructing this demo will be made available on the Resource Center in the months following the conference.
Another COP application will be demonstrated in the public safety showcase at the user conference. The Loma Linda University application called AEGIS (Advanced Emergency Geographic Information System) has been developed using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript. The application utilizes ArcGIS online and is dynamically updated with data from a variety of different sources including:
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