What are the opportunities, drivers and obstacles for using (open) geospatial standards across emergency management agencies

1. Examining Strategies for Geospatial INteroperabilityMaurits van der VlugtSpatial Information Strategist, Mercury Project SolutionsCo-Chair, Disaster Management Working Group,Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC)

3. (geospatial) Standards are boring Boffin Stuff Don’t save lives or property Not a good conversation topic

4. Have you Heard this before? “We can't share maps on the Web.” ”We can't deliver data to different systems.” "We don't have a common language to speak about our geospatial data or our services.” "We can't find and pull together data from our automated sensors.” “We have security issues relating to geospatial data exchange.”

5. Jan 2011: Floodmaps as PDF

6. Black Saturday: Fire prediction maps only a desk away (but in paper)

7. Vic Royal Commission (2010)

8. WhAt Can standards Bring? Different Systems in Different Agencies Communicate Seamlessly Securely While retaining information content and accuracy Interoperability! “My stuff works with your stuff, and I don’t care where it is, how it works and what the format is.” (Lesley Wyborn – Geoscience Australia)

9. A Sample –Blue Sky - Scenario Demonstrator Scene National disaster claims centre for Metropolitan Insurance Company (MIC) Type of Incident Damage prevention and assessment as the result of a severe thunderstorm Incident Site Liverpool / Blacktown NSW Main Actors Nicole – national claims manager Brian – console operator

10. What will we be seeing? 1. Live data alert 2. Preventive Action 3. Impact Analysis 4. Claims Analysis 5. Publishing

11. Storm warning comes in Mid-afternoon on a busy weekday Storm approaching Liverpool / Blacktown, tracking south-easterly BOM issues severe weather alert for Liverpool / Blacktown area Brian is on duty in MIC control centre Receives the severe weather alert and previews alert 1. Live data alert 2. Preventive Action 3. Impact Analysis 4. Claims Analysis Play Movie (press ‘Esc’ to stop) 5. Publishing

12. A storm is advancing into the Sydney Area The BOM Radar detects the thunderstorm… And broadcasts a warning email The Metropolitan Insurance Co receive the email 1.1

13. The Map Viewer is loaded from Perth In turn, the viewer loads the predefined map… 1.1

14. Scene 2 – Potential threat assessment Brian starts up MIC GIS System Adds live weather feeds from BOM on his console Nicole defines “threat zone” Asks to see impact on MIC’s policy portfolio Property & Motor vehicles # of policy holders affected Total insured value Estimated Claims exposure Instructs call centre not to accept any more business in the area 1. Live data alert 2. Preventive Action 3. Impact Analysis 4. Claims Analysis 5. Publishing Play Movie (press ‘Esc’ to stop)

15. The MIC GIS reads base map from PSMA / Mapwerks… Weather information from the Bureau of Meteorology and adds policy holders from the MIC database 1.2

16. Scene 2 - Proactive damage prevention Customer calls wishing to take out a new policy CRM alerts operator that the address falls inside threat zone Customer unable to take out a policy at this time Nicole asks Brian to issue an SMS alert to affected policy holders 1. Live data alert 2. Preventive Action 3. Impact Analysis MIC alert: storm warning Liverpool / Blacktown area. 4. Claims Analysis 5. Publishing Play Movie (press ‘Esc’ to stop)

17. Policy Entry tests for addresses in the Exclusion Zone 1.3

18. Scene 3 - Initial damage assessment Within hours, MIC starts receiving claims. All calls are logged and geocoded. Early indications that severe damage is concentrated in 3 areas Based on claims concentration and (verbal) SES reports Warwick Farm, Lansvale & Chipping Norton Brian creates initial damage/affected areas Nicole arranges for a contractor to fly the affected areas to take high resolution aerial photography. 1. Live data alert 2. Preventive Action 3. Impact Analysis 4. Claims Analysis 5. Publishing Play Movie (press ‘Esc’ to stop)

19. Scene 3 – Impact analysis Aerial photography contractor provides imagery via a web service Brian starts specialised Image Analysis tool Compares “before” and “after” imagery Refines affected areas 1. Live data alert 2. Preventive Action 3. Impact Analysis 4. Claims Analysis 5. Publishing Play Movie (press ‘Esc’ to stop) View Online (opens browser window)

20. New aerial photography is flown… And compared with previous archival photography To define affected areas 1.5-1.7

21. Scene 4 – Claims analysis 1. Live data alert 2. Preventive Action 3. Impact Analysis 4. Claims Analysis 5. Publishing Nicole spots inconsistencies in expected pattern of claims Claims outside affected areas Policy holders in affected areas not submitting claims Earmarks these claims/policies for further investigation

22. Spatial analysis of claims Claim in affected area No claim in affected area Claim NOT in affected area Policies Claims 1.8

25. Exclude new policies; warn policy holders by SMS

27. Change analysis

29. Better service delivery

30. Efficient use of resources

31. Publish once, use many

32. Standard maps to assist assessors5. Publishing

33. Blue Sky? Demonstrated in 2005 Live, online web services 6 different vendors & systems Out-of-the-box technology Using Open Geospatial Standards So why don’t we have this working in 2011?

34. Open geospatial (or location) standards © 2011 Open Geospatial Consortium

35. Standards are like parachutes: they work best when they're open. Mary McRae, OASIS

36. What is an open standard? Freely and publicly available, Non discriminatory, No license fees and Agreed through formal consensus, Vendor neutral, Data neutral. Open standards does not mean open source. Paper on Open Source and Open Standards:http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_and_Open_Standards © 2011 Open Geospatial Consortium

37. © 2011 Open Geospatial Consortium 29 It’s all about consensus

38. OGC Standards You may know? KML (Keyhole Markup Language) WMS (Web Mapping Service) GML (Geographic Markup Language) Open GeoSMS

39. Example worldwide standard: KML Michael Weiss-Malik, Google KML product manager “What OGC brings to the table is…everyone has confidence we won’t take advantage of the format or change it in a way that will harm anyone... Governments like to say they can publish to OGC KML instead of Google KML “ © 2011 Open Geospatial Consortium

40. Cross-platform Open GeoSMS http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.9985,-77.030275&GeoSMS I am here for OGC TC Meeting. Let’s watch the NBA final game 5 tonight!

41. Real practice in Taiwan Venders/Services that have adapted Open GeoSMS Open GeoSMS Enabled Service

42. Free App: Open GeoSMSer Free download from Android Marketplace Get GPS data and send Open GeoSMS to your contact Receive Open GeoSMS, bring up map and POI info Developed with Open GeoSMS SDK from ITRI

43. Summary Standards may be boring, but Interoperability is Critical Technology is not the problem Publish data as open, standard web-services Others can use it Timely, Transparent, Accurate Closed systems are no longer acceptable

44. Thank You Maurits.vandervlugt@mercuryps.com.au http://mercuryps.com.au Twitter: @mvandervlugt OGC: http://opengeospatial.org Slide Acknowledgements: Steven Ramage (OGC) Spatial Business Industry Association (SIBA)