Project Goal
The goal of revamping the SEMA Situation report was to provide a unified platform for information to be visible, and to make it easy to navigate various disparate weather systems, to understand the weather conditions impacting the state, while also reducing the time that it takes staff to generate the report daily.Business Problem Solved
SEMA has been providing a Daily Brief for a while, but it was a tedious task to sort through various different datasets to compile the report manually. Integrating GIS from the start made the process to compile the report significantly easier, as maps could be generated automatically, without user intervention, and allowed a real-time briefing tool, instead of one that was only valid when the report was published.
Technology Implemented
OGI built the public facing brief application using Experience Builder developer edition, integrating custom widgets to improve visualization. The report generation is built using a combination of custom print services on Enterprise, scheduled Power Automate flows, and a Survey123 form completed daily to update the Brief.
Development Team Biography
The Daily Brief is completed by the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) watch center, and the GIS systems that SEMA uses are built and maintained by the Office of Geospatial Information (OGI).