1. Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA®)
Common Operational Picture (COP) Training
Mobile Area Committee Training
December 18th, 2013
Office of Response & Restoration
and Disaster Response Center

2. ERMA Training Goals
How ERMA Can Help You
Requesting ERMA Support
Security
Importance of Information Flow
ERMA Demo & Basic Tools Introduction
Wrap Up & Discussion

3. How ERMA Can Help You - Planning
Pre-Populated Planning Data
Geographic Response Plans
Environmentally Sensitive Areas
Real-time weather, currents, wind
Facility, Infrastructure, Emergency evacuation routes
Navigational data (charts, AIS, ATONS, etc)
Regionally-Specific Concerns
Data Gaps or Insufficiencies
Partner with data providers now
Drills
PREP exercises, testing information flow, situation display, agency partners
Training
Using tools now to identify how they can help you later

4. How ERMA Can Help You - ICP
Operations Section
Unified Command/JIC
Incident Location
Up-To-Date Picture of All Operations
Vessel Locations
Dispersant Zones
Potential to show publically released data
In-Situ Burns
Divisions & Segments
NRDA / Case Support
Booming Strategies
Contaminates of concern
Environmental Unit
Threatened resources
T & E Species
Remedial alternatives
SCAT Data
Restoration potential
Sensitive Sites
Stand Alone ERMA
Wildlife Observations
Overflight Observations
Support remote locations
Situation Unit
No internet requirement
Mirror SitStat Board
Trajectories
Near Real-Time As Possible
Weather
Current Operations
First 24 hour support; Immediate QA assessment of field collected data; Daylights data gaps and QA issues previously unrecognized by field teams and ICS Sections; Helps ensure the highest quality data are available for Command decision making

5. 2012 Hurricane Isaac Gulf Strike Team OPS
"......You guys were definitely critical for the execution for the planning and execution process of the Recon Branch. Looking forward to working with NOAA again.” - Recon/Hazard Evaluation Branch Director"

6. How ERMA Can Help You – Incident Reporting
2014: High Expectations, Fast Turnaround of Info
External Reporting
Headquarters
Other Leadership
Other Agencies (EPA, FEMO, State JFO)
Transparency
Media
Public
Nightly Situation Reports
Powerpoint Talking Pieces
Links to Bookmarks
Briefing Materials

7. How ERMA Can Help You - Reporting

8. ERMA COP Interoperability
FEMA, States, Industry
Aerial & Satellite Imagery
USCG/MIT-Lincoln Labs PHINICS
UAV/Drone technology
Response Manager
NDOW
Mobile field data
Collection, QA
Database
Ingestion
and Delivery
ERMA Security allows trusted relationships with other systems and data

9. NOAA & UAF - UAS Demo

10. How Have We Helped : USCG Sector Support
Recent Activities:
On-scene Response/ COP deployment
Deepwater Horizon ( Ongoing)
Hurricane Sandy (2012)
Hurricane Isaac (2012)
USCG/ Industry Exercise/ Drills/ Training
USCG CANUSLANT (June 2013)
Arctic Shield (Sept 2013)
USCG Long Island Sound (Sept 2013)
USCG Corpus Christi PREP (Sept 2013)
USCG Academy (Sept 2013)
District 7 Sectors St Pete/ Ft Lauderdale (Sept 2013)
NOAA DRC (Oct 2013 / Dec 2013)

11. Requesting ERMA Support
ERMA “On” 24/7/365
First Stop: NOAA SSC
Small Incident: Remote Support
Medium Incident: NOAA On-Scene IM/ERMA Support
Large Incident: Dedicated ERMA Staff On-Scene Support
Remote Incident: “Stand-Alone” ERMA + Dedicated Staff On-Scene

13. ERMA Account Access Public Side
All publically available data
Restricted Account Side for Planning & Response
Username/password required
Verified by NOAA
Various levels of access
Active incidents
Sensitive datasets
NRDA
Drills
Data available only to appropriate users and use

14. ERMA Account Security Primary User Account Credentials Public
Responder
Federal
Trustee
Additional Credentials
Sensitive resources
Cultural resources
Training/Testing/Archive
Responder
Trustee
Sensitive
Resource
Federal
NRDA
Public

15. User and Layer Sensitivity
ERMA Account Security
User and Layer Security limits what any given user will see in ERMA
Every layer in ERMA is assigned a sensitivity level
Only users with the appropriate security level can see “protected” data
User and Layer Sensitivity
Federal
NRDA
Public
Responder
Sensitive Resources
Trustee

16. Vessels, Observations, Boom, Dispersants, Safety Zone
ERMA Information Flow
Operations
Vessels, Observations, Boom, Dispersants, Safety Zone
Environmental
Wildlife Impacts, No Spray Zones, Fisheries Closures, SCAT, Overflight Observations

17. Vessels, Observations, Boom, Dispersants, Safety Zone
ERMA Information Flow
Operations
Vessels, Observations, Boom, Dispersants, Safety Zone
Environmental
Wildlife Impacts, No Spray Zones, Fisheries Closures, SCAT, Overflight Observations
Situation Unit
213

18. Data Management / GIS Processing
ERMA Information Flow
Operations
Vessels, Observations, Boom, Dispersants, Safety Zone
Environmental
Wildlife Impacts, No Spray Zones, Fisheries Closures, SCAT, Overflight Observations
Situation Unit
Data Management / GIS Processing

19. Can Command use your data to make decisions???
COP Information Flow
Operations
Environmental
Situation Unit
Data Management / QA /
GIS Processing
Can Command use your data to make decisions???

20. Can Command use your data to make decisions???
COP Information Flow
Operations
Environmental
Situation Unit
Data Management / QA /
GIS Processing
Can Command use your data to make decisions???
COP
(ERMA)
A COP without data is like
… a gun without bullets

21. ERMA Data Management & Standards
Info Mgt Plan / Data Sharing Agreements
Ensure cooperation, efficient data delivery, avoid duplication
Data Documentation
Must have metadata! Real cost of production
Data Accessibility
Make data available so others can use it
Data Standards
Use existing for content, format and symbology
Planning and Preparedness
Not just in crisis mode
We rely on standard data formats and data presentation

22. ERMA Layout

23. ERMA Interactive Tools
Zoom To
Bookmark Views
Lat/Long
Saves layers and location
Place name or Address
Customizable slideshow
Ship – MMSI Find
Attachments
Areas of Interest (AOI)
.jpg, .png, .tiff, .zip
User-made map features
PDF, Excel, Word
Draw function
Find tool
Map Labels
Automated search of all layers
Customize with user-made feature labels
Print Tools
Timestamp
Measurement Tools
Various page sizes
Length/Area
Interactive Query Tools
Animations
Environmental Sensitivity Index
Show key layers across time
US Fish and Wildlife IPAC
Lite/Full Metadata Access
Layer Query by Polygon
FGDC/ISO

24. ERMA Tools ERMA Layout and Tools Data Search
Find Bar
Recent Data tab
Bookmark Views
Zoom tools (Place Name, Lat/Long, MMSI)
ESI Query & Reporting Tools
Data sharing and download

25. Wrap Up
Data Gaps, What Data Are Useful
Additional Training and Drills