Time is one of the most crucial factors in emergency situations. Efficient coordination and sharing of information are essential in a multi-disciplinary emergency response. This shared information is known as the Common Operational Picture. A Common Operational Picture can enhance operations, assist in faster and more effective decision making, and control and minimize damage and possibly even save human lives.

The Eagle suite for Disaster Management, built on top of Microsoft Groove and SharePoint, and using ESRI’s ArcGIS, Geodan Movida and Cyclomedias Cycloramas synchronizes and exchanges geographical and textual information, thus realizing a Single View Platform.

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A considerable amount of the required information in risk and emergency management is geographical, but this information does not always reach the right actors at the right time, so how can geographical information be organised in such a way that it supports risk and emergency management more effectively? The answer requires a conceptualisation of risk and emergency management practices resulting in the network-centric concept, which implies that those involved in risk and emergency management are connected and that they have the capability to share and access information.

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Microsoft, Geodan and ESRI have been working on an implementation of the Microsoft Citizen Safety Architecture to deliver a suite of applications and services that allow multiple agencies to collaborate seamlessly to increase responsiveness and realize a single Common Operational Picture (COP) to support fast and effective decision-making in a highly complex environment. This way, emergency services, governmental, non-governmental and rescue organizations are all connected and can collaborate effectively, helping to reduce disaster impact and measurably improve public safety.

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Presenters: Sander Vlotman & Gineke Snoeren
Goal is to explain what the Eagle Crisis Management System is, how it is used and to discuss if it will work for you.

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Making sure that everyone can access the right information at the right time and that the same impression of the disaster is shared by all: that is where geo-information provides added value in disaster response. Disaster evaluations have shown time and again that the exchange of information during a disaster can pose an important bottleneck. Microsoft, Geodan and ESRI Nederland together have developed a crisis management system which makes it possible to share images and information. The use of geo-information in disaster management must lead to greater awareness of the situation and help the emergency workers to make the right decisions.

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Making sure that everyone can access the right information at the right time and that the same impression of the disaster is shared by all: that is where geo-information provides added value in disaster response. Microsoft, Geodan and ESRI Nederland together have developed a crisis management system which makes it possible to share images and information. In addition to the desktop system, they have now also developed a mobile version. By applying the concept of ‘working netcentrically’ this variant supports the emergency services in the field and provides the parties concerned with the right information at the right time during a crisis situation.

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In emergency response it is important to have a coordinated response from the different actors involved. Eagle Surface offers the heads of the different forces (police, firebrigade, etc) a discussion space with all the important information intuitively available. The system uses Microsoft Surface multi-touch tabletop to display the Common Operational Picture (maps and text communication) created by managers using Eagle command center. This view is enhanced with a link to a realistic view of the situation (increasing situational awareness) via a vertical display with Microsoft Bing Maps for Enterprise augmented with the 3D data from the Common Operation Picture.

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