Tools to Support State and Local Emergency Management

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Tools to Support State and Local Emergency
Management
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Presentation Objectives

• Explain why places2protectTM was developed
• Describe use cases where places2protect can
  provide support for State and Local emergency
  management, planning and response needs

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4 Phases of Disaster Management
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State Planning and Response
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Emergency Management Data Hurdles

• Historically, there has been no central,
  regularly maintained and feature rich data
  resource of first responders
• States cannot easily obtain data related to
  adjoining states
• Lack of standardization

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Emergency Management Data Hurdles

• Data collection and maintenance is time consuming
  and costly
• Detailed attribute information, including
  size/capacity and other characteristics of
  high-risk populations and critical facilities
  takes a lot of effort to develop
• States can obtain data through licensing, etc.
• Information may be limited (name and address
  only)
• Data may be dated or incomplete
• Data are not organized for immediate access or
  mapping
• Data may not be geocoded
• For emergency management, constant contact is
  required

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What is Places2protect?

• Developed to provide all facility data on
  emergency medical services, captive populations
  community facilities
• Many layers in HSIP since its inception

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Places2protect Databases

• Emergency Medical
• Hospitals
• Urgent Care Centers
• Ambulance Services
• Plus Others
• Emergency Response and Relief
• Public Health Depts.
• Red Cross Chapters
• Plus Others

• Captive Populations.
• Schools and School Districts
• Child Care Centers
• Handicapped Children/Residential Treatment
  Centers
• Summer Camps
• Nursing Retirement Homes
• Adult Day Care Centers
• Plus Others

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Places2protect Databases (2)

• Other Captive Populations and or Shelters
• Colleges and Universities
• Jails and Correctional Facilities
• City Governments, including additional addresses
  separate from main city hall locations
• Churches
• Runaway and Homeless Shelters

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MCH Lessons Learned for Collecting Emergency
Management Data

• Telephone calling is essential to get 100
  response
• Need experienced callers with sector expertise
• Need strong scripting and IT that supports
  discontinuous interviewing, addition of new
  questions, etc.
• Data from web crawling needs heavy QA/QC
• Mail out/mail back surveys are helpful but will
  never reach 100 coverage
• A team approach to calling helps
• The Religious Institutions team is increasingly
  helpful in other layers (schools, nursing homes,
  etc.). For example, diocese control of nursing
  homes.
• The nixie corrections program for detecting
  address changes is an excellent early warning
  system for data changes

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Use Cases Supported by Places2protect

• Mitigation phase
• Analyze proximity of sensitive populations
  (seniors, children, etc.) to flood plains,
  pipelines, other hazards, etc.
• Preparedness phase
• Monitor ratio of EMS resources to critical
  facilities to populations
• Maintain current facility and attribute inventory
  for evacuation planning

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Use Cases Supported by Places2protect

• Disaster response phase is how immediate action
  is undertaken
• Know hospitals attributes (e.g., helipads, burn
  units, ICUs, beds)
• Redirect to alternative sites when hospitals are
  at capacity (i.e., nursing facilities, clinics,
  or other evacuation sites)
• Current contacts and locations available to first
  responders

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Use Case Examples
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Use Case Examples
Show me Houston hospitals
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Where is a nearby ambulance service?
Use Case Examples
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What places are at risk in severe weather?What
are the evacuation priorities?
Use Case Examples
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Schools in the Path of Severe Weather
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Web Services Architecture - IONIC
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Services Architecture for GEOINT Simple Powerful

• Common Services Framework
• HTTP, XML
• ISO 19128, ISO 19115, 19139
• ISO 19119 (Services Metadata)
• OGC Context, WFS, WCS, SLD
• Geography Markup Language (GML)
• OGC Catalog Database
• EPSG Coordinate Database
• GEOTIFF, JPEG, PNG, others
• JPEG 2000
• WSDL, SOAP, UDDI
• JSR 168

Based on Standards Listing for National System
for GEOINT
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Appendix

• SIC Crosswalk Examples

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Hospitals
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Ambulance Services
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Child Care Centers