Fighting Disasters by Working Together

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.

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Eagle Suite for Disaster Management

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. Eagle has been successfully tested and evaluated in large scale real-life exercises. Based on the positive evaluations of two exercises Eagle has won the prominent Dutch Public Safety Award 2008 (more information: www.veiligheidaward.nl).

Requirements disaster management system

In close cooperation with the Middle Gelderland Emergency Service Region, the Ministry of Defense and Homeland Security, Geodan, ESRI and Microsoft developed a suite of applications and services that allow multiple agencies to collaborate seamlessly in order to increase responsiveness and support fast and effective decision-making in a highly complex environment. Based on experiences of the emergency responders a list of requirements was provided to which the system had to meet:

Situational awareness
Real-time location awareness
Sharing data among different organizations
Large data-flows
Allow collaboration between (different) organizations
Support strategic, tactical and operational levels
Work under extreme conditions
Use the same applications that are used in day-to-day operations

Components Eagle Suite

For the Eagle Suite Microsoft, Geodan and ESRI have been working on architecture to meet these requirements and thus allow a shift from hierarchical exchange of information towards a network centric capabilities approach.

The Eagle Suite consists of the following components:

Eagle Command Center
Eagle Mobile
Eagle Surface
Eagle Live
Eagle Wall
Eagle Playback

Eagle Architecture

The Eagle Suite is a collection of applications enabling crisis teams, consisting of multiple organizations, to work effectively in a net-centric way, to share data and to realize a Common Operational Picture (COP).

In brief, Eagle uses software and infrastructural components to allow communication between organizations in extreme situations on the one hand, and facilitate complex geospatial analyses on available data on the other:

Eagle and Microsoft Office Groove
Eagle and Microsoft Sharepoint
Eagle and Microsoft Office SGL Server
Eagle and ESRI ArcGIS
Eagle and Microsoft Virtual Earth
Eagle and Microsoft Silverlight
Eagle and Microsoft Surface
Eagle and Geodan Movida
Eagle and Cycloramas