UICDS Update NLE 11 Special Edition

UICDS Update

NLE 11 Technology Showcase

Special Mid-Exercise Edition

An Update on Two Days of the UICDS NLE 11 Technology Showcase Using UICDS in the Cloud

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The National Level Exercise for 2011 (NLE 11) tests our Nation's ability to respond to and recover from a catastrophic incident impacting multiple states, all levels of government, and our communities and citizens. The scenario for this exercise is a catastrophic earthquake impacting the Central United States. UICDS is using the incidents and response of NLE 11 to carry out its parallel technology showcase.

For the first time, UICDS "software as a service" has been deployed to the Cloud to support NLE 11 activities. This deployment leverages cloud-based technologies such as scalability and accessibility that could be employed to ensure information sharing and collaboration during a major disaster.

The first two days of NLE 11 focused on life-saving and discovery of losses and damages. In the short summaries below you will see the variety of UICDS-based information sharing of incident and damage information that was deemed appropriate to share by any of the participating UICDS Pilots and Technology Providers. This represents their common view of what is important among NLE 11 events that have unfolded. Click on any of the images to see the full details of these important participants in information sharing about NLE 11 through UICDS.

CAP Messages
NJIT CAP Alerts into UICDS

New Jersey Institute of Technology is engaged in the evaluation of the Common Alerting Protocol for alert messaging. Their CAP message injects are one way that NLE 11 content from the Virtual News Network is inserted into UICDS. Here you see the NJIT Crisis Communication Center and the CAP messages being distributed.

Google Earth Visualizes UICDS
UICDS Shares Mapping Data

Employing Open Geospatial Consortium mapping standards, UICDS enables sharing of geospatial data from many, many sources. Here, the freely downloadable Google Earth was configured easily by people across the country who are following NLE 11 on UICDS. To get your own access to follow NLE 11 on UICDS, click here.

ObjectFX Merges UICDS and Spatial Rules Engine

UICDS Incidents Form Basis for Analysis

ObjectFX Spatial Rules Engine needs data for analysis. UICDS provides incdent data from multiple sources that becomes the raw material for analyis. Here we see the UICDS NLE 11 incidents displayed on ObjectFX.

Flex Viewer Visualizes NLE 11

The Free ESRI Flex Viewer with UICDS Widgets

The ESRI Flex Viewer has become a very popular within the emergency management community. While UICDS does not produce applications - as middleware there is no user interface, other applications are the UICDS front end - UICDS does produce example code for application developers. The ESRI Flex Viewer example code is being used to allow anyone who requests access to follow NLE 11 as it unfolds through UICDS. To get your access, click here.

UICDS Data Open to Other Data

Applications allow UICDS Data to be Merged with Other Data Sources

Here we see the value of being able to dynamically reach into UICDS to apply its shared data to application-level visualization. The USGS earthquake shake overlay is shown here with incidents obtained through UICDS on Google Earth. This kind of multi-source analysis can then be shared back through UICDS to other applications using the UICDS Map Service.

ETeam Incidents
Popular Commercial Application Shares With UICDS

NLE 11 players using ETeam also use the ETeam UICDS Adapter to automatically share the NLE 11 incidents they think are important with other UICDS applications. Shown is a list of NLE 11 incidents on ETeam that were either created on ETeam and shared through UICDS or provided to ETeam by other applications through UICDS.

ESRI ArcGIS Shares Data
Consuming and Providing Geospatial Data Through UICDS

ESRI ArcGIS is a pervasive geospatial application across emergency management. Here you see ArcGIS displaying NLE 11 incidents from UICDS. Using the ESRI UICDS Adapter, important geospatial data, for example hospitals relevant to an incident, can be provided to UICDS for sharing with other applications to speed response to victims.

NC4 Universal Console Gets UICDS
OGC Standards Allow Quick Integration

The NC4 suite of applications - External Situational Awareness, Universal Console, and ETeam - all take advantage of standards making integration with UICDS effective. Here you see the same incident and alert data consumed by the Universal Console map for use by NC4 clients.

WebEOC Incidents Use UICDS
Sharing of Event Information

WebEOC is widely used by the emergency management community. Here you see NLE 11 incidents either created by WebEOC and shared with the UICDS network or created by someone on the UICDS netwrok and shared with WebEOC.

Google Earth as a UICDS Gateway
NJIT Uses UICDS Middleware to Populate Embedded Map Application

Working to provide the New Jersey Business Emergency Operations Center with key private sector data about NLE 11, the New Jersey Institute of Technology created a portal that includes UICDS data in an embedded Google Earth. Request access to the NJIT site by clicking here.

Become a UICDS Pilot - Join Information Sharing from DHS

Tired of watching and want to get involved? Are you a government agency that knows you shoud share information better? Critical infrastructure owner/operator in need of coordination with governments? Technology provider who wants to better serve emergency management and response organizations?

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