1. Emergency Management: Incident, Resource, and Supply Chain Management
(EMWS09)
UC Irvine, CA
November 5-6, 2009
Dr. Nabil Adam
Fellow/Senior Program Manager
Infrastructure & Geophysical Division
Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security 1

2. - Interoperability and Expandability Data Analysis Standards
Emergency Management – Incident, Resources, and Supply Chain Management Basic Pillars
- Information Sharing
- Incident Management
- Interoperability and Expandability
Data Analysis
Standards
Information sharing
GIS and maps
Alerts and incident reports
Sensor
Plumes
Data Analysis
Incident management– planning, execution, and monitoring
Incident command system organization and structure
Resource management – discovery, allocation, and status monitoring
Interoperability and Expandability
Information Sharing
Incident Management
Interoperability & Expandability
Data
Analysis

3. Information Sharing Intelligent - Policies, security, privacy, etc.)
GIS based – Geo-spatial standards
Sharing of
Alert data Sharing – CAP
Sensors (numerous types) Data – OGC-SOS
Documents/data related to Incident Management and Planning
Information sharing in an intelligent way
UICDS
Information is shared based on:
Roles and responsibilities and relevance of the information to the recipients
Policies of the information/data owner
Characteristics of the recipient device
GIS Data Sharing
Follows OGC (e.g., WFS, WMS, SLD, WCS), ISO, FGDC standards for sharing of any GIS data
Data can be received/provided from/to external applications
Does not provide a GIS data viewer
Enables alert data Sharing
Follows CAP standard for alert data management
Alerts can be received/sent from/to any external application that can transmit or receive CAP alerts
Enables Sensor Data Sharing
UICDS allows external sensors that are Open Geospatial Consortium Sensor Observation Specification (OGC-SOS) compliant to be registered as UICDS resources. Observations or measurements made by these sensors are used to support incident related activities. The information required to retrieve sensor observations is stored as UICDS work products that are associated with the incident.
Provides operations to–Create, update, delete Sensor Observation Information
UICDS allows external sensors to be registered as UICDS resources
Observations/measurements made by these sensors are used to support incident related activities
Other documents/data related to Incident Management and Planning
Incident action plan; incident command system (ICS) forms; resource management data (EDXL-messages)
Interoperability & Expandability
Information Sharing
Incident Management
Data
Analysis

4. Incident Management
Incorporates incident command structure, incident action plans, and ICS forms
Provides reasoning capabilities to assist IC for identifying:
1-Appropriate response plan
2-Required resources and their location
3-Response agencies that can be assigned to the various response activities
Provides functionalities, data, and tools for Incident response planning, execution, monitoring/tracking
UICDS
incorporates the functionalities for incident management
Incident command structure
The response personnel to view and manage their tasks and resources
Incident action plan and ICS forms
status reporting
Resource request, allocation, and tracking
coordination among agencies – task assignment
Provides reasoning capabilities to assist IC for identifying:
1-Appropriate response plan
2-Required resources and their location
3-Response agencies that can be assigned to the various response activities
Provides functionalities, data, and tools for:
-Incident response planning (e.g., loading and viewing appropriate response plan for a given area and for a specific incident)
-Execution (coordination among agencies for response execution, assigning tasks to agencies, identifying regions where response activities need to be carried out )
-Monitoring/tracking (e.g., tracking activity status)
Information Sharing
Incident Management
Interoperability & Expandability
Data
Analysis

5. Interoperability & Expandability
Built on industry standards (SOA), to enable interoperability with external applications, e.g.
Resource management, analytical tools/simulations
Provides the building blocks (data, basic functionalities & tools)
for composing new applications
Service-based framework and adoption of standards enable interoperability with external applications of any sort
plug & play approach
External applications can be added or replaced with more advanced applications
Provides the building blocks (data, basic functionalities & tools) for composing new applications
Example of a Composite Application
-- Get incident Data from UICDS Core
-- provide Weather and Hazmat Data to UICDS Core
-- This data is used by another application connected to UICDS to generate Plume Model
-- Pass the Plume Model to a Traffic Service for Identifying alternate routes to Hazmat traffic.
Interoperability & Expandability
InforInformation Sharing
Incident Management
Data
Analysis
Data
Analysis

6. Interoperability & Expandability
Data Analysis
Data Analysis
Not necessarily includes an internal data analysis component
Provides plug and play support to external data analysis applications
Data Analysis
UICDS core does not include and internal data analysis component
Provide plug and play support to external data analysis applications
Any external application can retrieve data from UICDS Core, process/analyze data, and send the results back to UICDS Core, which can be stored in the UICDS situational awareness DB
Depending on the incident scenario, location, and requirements, the external analysis applications can be added or replaced with more advance applications
Information Sharing
Incident Management
Interoperability & Expandability
Data
Analysis

7. Interoperability & Expandability
Standards
Complies with and Supports:
NIMS, NRF and ICS standards and others
Industry standards
Data Analysis
UICDS core does not include and internal data analysis component
Provide plug and play support to external data analysis applications
Any external application can retrieve data from UICDS Core, process/analyze data, and send the results back to UICDS Core, which can be stored in the UICDS situational awareness DB
Depending on the incident scenario, location, and requirements, the external analysis applications can be added or replaced with more advance applications
Information Sharing
Incident Management
Interoperability & Expandability
Data
Analysis

8. Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS)
A Basic Framework to build on
A “middleware foundation” for
Enabling information sharing and decision support among commercial and government incident management technologies
Follows a standards-based service-oriented architecture
Enables information sharing, e.g., geospatial data, sensor feeds, alerts, plumes, security and privacy policies
Provides functionalities, data, and tools for Incident response planning, execution, monitoring/tracking, and adaptation
Coordination among agencies
Task assignment and status monitoring
Resource discovery, allocation, and tracking