presentation at UN-SPIDER workshop 2008

1. GIS Platforms: The Power of
Interoperability
Emanuele Gennai
ESRI Global
egennai@esri.com
Geneva, Switzerland
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2. ESRI
Our Focus is Supporting Our Users
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Our Purpose
• Serve Users & Partners
• Support Employees
• Contribute to Society Our Goals
• Advance GIS
• Evolve Geographic Science
• Promote Spatial Thinking
• Develop GIS Professional Workforce
Status
• Growing
• Financially Strong
• Many Strong Relationships
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3. GIS Fuses All Types of Physical and Temporal Data
Geodatabases Can Model and
Manage All Geographic Data
Types
Vehicle locations
Networks Surveys
Addresses
Weather information Vectors
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Roads/Infrastructure ABC
Security zones Annotations
Satellite imagery
3D Objects
Human settlements Attributes
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Affected areas Topology
Dimensions
Terrain CAD
Drawings
Images
Forming collections of data to create information and
knowledge …
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4. GIS For Interoperability
Providing Tools, Methods, and Workflows That Support
Collaboration and Action
Work Flow
Storing
Integration
Many Data Types and Sources
Analyzing
• Better Decisions
• Greater Efficiency
(Money/Time/Resources) Visualizing
Acting
• More Effective
Communication
GIS provides a common platform for storing, accessing, and acting
upon information of all types
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5. Interoperability Provides the Capability to Integrate,
Search, Analyze and Visualize Information
Critical Infrastructure
Natural Hazards
Storm Tracking
Emergency Notification
Technological Hazards
Tracking Resources
Population Density Maps Provide a Way to Understand
Incident Mapping Information Quickly and Accurately
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6. GIS as an Interoperability Platform
• Integrate and link disparate
data
• Provide logical access to
plans and documents
• Access all types of online
GIS data and services
• Create, publish and share
emergency data
• Required data available
when and where needed
… Enabling Situational Awareness
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7. Some Interoperability types in a fusion center
LEICA
BAE
Globe Interfaces
Google Earth
MS Virtual Earth Ionic
Image
Integration
GeoRSS
KML… SAP
Metadata
AutoCAD ISO 19139
SOAP,
XML, SQL
CAD
PB MapInfo
GeoMedia
Any Client
Any service
Open API’s OGC Standards
WMS, WFS,
REST Fusion Center GML, . . .
Flash
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8. GIS Server Patterns
Distributed (SDI)
Departments
Mobile
Replication
Enterprise
Mapping
Enterprise Integration
Web GIS Applications
IT System
Fusion Center
Mashups
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9. Fusion Center
Supporting a Common Operating Picture
• Emergency Management
• Community Awareness
Situational
• Security and Public Safety Awareness
• Humanitarian Intelligence
• Complex Operations
Replication/Integration
Web
Mobile
Explorer
GIS Infrastructure
. . . Providing Integrated Situational Awareness
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10. GIS Interoperability Challenges
• GIS Data Standards for regional/international base
maps (e.g. compatibility of data models and data
collection processes)
• Methods: Developing GIS applications to work across
(all) boundaries
• Linguistic issues
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11. A lesson learned through Hurricane Katrina
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12. Lessons Learned through Hurricane Katrina
• Hurricane Katrina – A Lack of standard data sets across
State/County boundaries
• No Central capability to integrate dynamic data for a
single view of damage, status, situational awareness
• Applications for GIS developed in one area would not
work in another area with different data
• It took 2 weeks to acquire, normalize and make
operational the data for a regional GIS
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13. Lessons Learned
• GIS was not used for preparedness
• GIS was used for response and recovery
• GIS data and applications had to be gathered and developed during
developed during
the crisis; difficult & time consuming
Because of a lack of preparedness:
• No One Place for Incident Information and Status
No One Place for Incident Information and Status
• Difficulty In Getting Access To Data
Difficulty In Getting Access To Data
• Lack of Multi-Organization Coordination & Data Sharing
• Inconsistent Data (Creating Confusion and Bad Decisions)
1000 +people were deployed to support GIS.
Data Acquisition & Processing - 50 + Person Years
Application Development - 10 + Person Years
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14. Integrated GIS Database Developed
In 14 days –(we
New Orleans
lost 14 days!)
• Integration Of Existing Data
• Standard Data Model
• Consistent Applications
• Dissemination Via Web and Media
Houston
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16. Summary
• Think of GIS as being the ideal platform for
interoperability for all types of information and data, at any
stage of the relief process
• GIS has a great value, in allowing people to coordinate
activities and cooperate before, during and after a crisis
• GIS transforms scattered data sources in actionable
information
• Being prepared saves time and lives
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17. Thank you
Emanuele Gennai
ESRI Global
egennai@esri.com
Geneva, Switzerland
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