National Interagency Fire Center Situational Awareness David Blankinship, on behalf of USFS Fire and Aviation Management
TIME DOMINANT SITUATIONAL AWARENESS OR
WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION David Blankinship for
The National Interagency Fire Center Boise, ID
Waldo Canyon Fire, 26 June Focus on the task at hand Quit talking about GIS Give fire folks the information they need to manage grave decisions
WE WANT TECHNOLOGY TO DISAPPEAR Data…
…is not a plan
The Problem Is it possible to have a high-level overview AND tactical support? Can I avoid data OVERLOAD? How do we make it a pervasive part of our traditional culture? And I’ll throw in a few goodies…
Policy and Resource Allocation for the entire United States
Focus: Resource Allocation
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National Situational Awareness
NATIONAL LEVEL LOOK
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Real Decision Support
Geographic Area Coordination Center (GACC) managing a region
Focus: Tie even more data – in a simple way – into a regional management package.
REGIONAL LEVEL LOOK
Headquarters and GACCs diving deep with questions
Focus: Briefing any fire of National or Regional significance Early information on emerging events
INDIVIDUAL INCIDENT OVERVIEW
A micro-look at any incident. Interacts on the firefight level.
Focus: Role based workflows
SITUATION ANALYST – A VIEW WITHIN ANY INCIDENT
Turning Remote Sensing into a right-now tool for OPERATIONS
Focus: Imagery support – in
BONUS FEATURES: TIME DOMINANT REMOTE SENSING AND INTEGRATED FLIGHT FOLLOWING
Digital Globe FirstLook Crisis Event Imagery
Range & Bearing Real-time Thermal IR
Range & Bearing Real-time Thermal IR in Situation Analyst
Range & Bearing Real-time Thermal IR in Situation Analyst
Range & Bearing Real-time Thermal IR in Situation Analyst
Range & Bearing Real-time Thermal IR in Situation Analyst
Data integrated from over a dozen programs, sensors, or data warehouses Agile approach Open and extensible In an era of curtailed budgets – we have become a program of record with a long term O&M budget
Presidential Policy Directive 8 Consuming and exchanging web services Cloud-based Mobility Service Oriented Architecture