Strong Angel III - geospatial information systems

ESRI â€“ Entree Wireless Test Geo-located Handheld Data Collection

DavidAhlgren — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:56:41 +0000

08/25/06 - Friday
Sortie Plan
2508 â€“ Point Loma, Data Collection â€“ 2508
Sortie Lead - Myles Sutherland, ESRI, Tom Patterson, ESRI

The Planâ€“ Visit a variety of sites in the Point Loma area. Make local contacts and collect simulated patient data on a variety of GPS enabled handheld devices such as; PDA, Cell phone, laptops. Transmit data to a data center via the Internet using various communication channels including â€“ 1) Cellular Data Network, 2) Wi-Fi using the EVDO/Wi-Fi Bridge.

Data Flow using the EVDO/Wi-Fi Bridge

GPS enabled handheld w/ Wi-Fi >> Entree Wireless battery powered EVDO/Wi-Fi gateway>> Verizon EVDO Data Service >> Internet >> ESRI data center >> Internet >> ESRI Strong Angel Common Operating Picture >> Virtual Agility Strong Angel III Situational Awareness

Lessons from FEMA for SA III

sanjana — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:10:49 +0000

Wrote this post - - based on some observations on the http://strongangel.nga-earth.org/ site launched in the afternoon today.

Sanjana Hattotuwa

Functioning without the network is an experience!

KevinDeVito — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:35:19 +0000

one thing I have already learned.....I am very network ependent with my solution. I need to address this in development.

GIS medical resource reporting

jcrowley — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:30:25 +0000

BACKGROUND:

How do we report medical information from a non-standard place where injured or sick people are accumulating during a disaster, like a ballpark field or nursing home?

GOALS:

Integrate GIS tools with data monitoring and alert programs to support comprehensive medical resource reporting.

Situational Awareness & Visualization

jcrowley — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:29:50 +0000

BACKGROUND:

Situational awareness is problematic in crisis situations, and there is a constant challenge found in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating accurate information frequently and rapidly.

GOALS:

Maintain a visual GIS understanding of the area around the Core operations.

Team Tracking

jcrowley — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:29:12 +0000

BACKGROUND:

In a disaster, it is very important to know where people are located in order to deliver supplies and relief, and to plan and run rescue missions. We need to physically know where core team members are located as they move around.

GOALS:

Maintain GPS tracker identification of SA-III core ops participants. Map GIS locations with video-VOIP capabilities.