Environmental Response
Management Application (ERMA ®)
NOAA / Office of Response and Restoration
Caribbean Regional Response Team Spring Meeting
May 11, 2011
St. Croix, VI
Benefits
• ERMA :
• Improves data sharing and communication
• ERMA is:
• Easy to use for non-GIS users
• Accessible for upload and viewing from anywhere via
web browser
• A Platform that easily display across jurisdictional
boundaries and scaled to area of interest
• A Planning and preparedness tool
• ERMA includes:
• Real-time data sets overlaid with baseline and operational
data
• Flexible query tools to interact with data
• Secure Access and protected data
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Functionality and Uses
• ERMA is designed to:
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Aid in spill preparedness & planning
Assist in coordinating response efforts and situational awareness
Help define the extent of potential impacts and NRDA
Support Recovery and Restoration efforts
Be accessed from anywhere you have an internet connection
Visualize data from a variety of sources complete with metadata
(including field photos, linked scientific reports, etc.)
• Tell a story or event history using animated layers
• ERMA has:
• Functioned as the Common Operational Picture for DWH per USCG
designation
• Created an interactive picture for Natural Resource Damage
Assessment
• Powered GeoPlatform.gov/Gulfresponse
Continuum of “Response”
Framework for ERMA
Restoration Recovery
Response
(24 hours)
Emergency
Response Division
(ERD)
(Years/Decades)
Assessment and
Restoration Division
(ARD)
Restoration Center
(RC)
Concept for ERMA
Open Source, Web-based mapping tools
Planning & Analysis
Integrate & Analyze Information
On the fly
Improved Communication & Coordination
Output to User
Download/Upload Source
Feature Server
Tools
ESI & IPaC Query
Web Mapping
Service (Feature)
External GIS Data
• ENCs/ RNCs
• Real Time Weather Obs
• Buoys
• NAIS/ AFF/AMOC
Open Layers
ERMA: Behind the
Scenes
Secure Server Authentication
Data Layer Management
Access Privileges
MapServer
Base Public datasets
• ESI
• Landuse
• Bathymetry
• Regional Monitoring
• Habitat Classifications
• Restoration
• Bioresource Base data
AIS Ship Search
PostGres/
PostGIS
Data Base
(Full Backup routinely)
Response datasets from SFTP
• Trajectories
• Satellite Interpretations for oil
• SCAT Results
• Overflight Planed & Obs
• Booms plans/derived from
imagery
• Protected Resource Impact
• Field sampling (subsurface,
analytical chemistry, etc.)
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• Platform observations
Types of Information in ERMA
• Background layers
• Google aerial, terrain,
roads
• Nautical charts
• Resources at Risk
• NOAA ESI data layers
• Local habitat and species
datasets
• Seafood Safety
• Incident information • Document & photo
• Trajectories
links
• Resource tracking -MMIS
• Shoreline Oiling
• Sampling data
• Weather & Buoys
• Hurricane/Storms
• Remote-sensing Imagery
• ESI and GRPs PDFs
attached to layers
• Field Photos
Current ERMA Development
Gulf of Mexico
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New England (SONS)
Caribbean
Gulf of Mexico
Puget Sound WA
Pacific Islands –
Arctic
Lake Champlain
NJ/ NY Harbor
Great Lakes
West Coast
Current Weather Conditions
Response and Research Ships Tracking
Field Personnel Tracking
Cultural Resources - Protected
Interactive Tools
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Zoom To
• Lat/Long
• Place name
• Ship – MMSI Find
• Bookmark Map Views
• Saves layers and location
• Customizable slideshow
• Areas of Interest
• User-made map features
• Measurement Tools
• Length/Area
• Animations
• Show key layers across time
• Full Metadata Access
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Find tool
• Automated search of all layers
Map Labels
• User-made feature labels
Print Tools
• Timestamp
• Various page sizes
Interactive Query Tools
• Layer Query by Polygon
• NOAA ESI
• US Fish and Wildlife IPAC
Identify tool
• Analytical chemistry results
• Status of ship locations
“Find” Feature Layers
Single Click Full Metadata Access
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Spatial Bookmarks
Field Sampling Results
Display of Field Photos
ERMA Query Tools
• Layer Query by Polygon
• Selects from features displaying on the map
• Choice of features within or intersecting polygon
• Allows download as excel, shapefile, or KML
• NOAA ESI Query
• Selects All NOAA ESI data
• US FWS IPaC Query
• Selects All FWS Species/Habitat data
• Launches USFWS tool and identifies endangered
species &
Query by Polygon – Results Tables
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Summary results for all drawn features
Complete attributes for each layer selection
Multiple export formats (excel, KML, shapefile)
Direct access to metadata-lite and FGDC metadata
ESI Query
Tool – Report
• Selected Habitat &
Species summary
• Shoreline
Classification
• Detailed
information on
species life
histories
• PDF, excel file
output
IPaC Query Tool –
Report
• Endangered Species
summary
• Detailed information
on species life
histories
• PDF output
Enhancing ERMA
• Training
• Developing packaged training options
• Webex with “live” ERMA team
• Recorded Sessions w/ contact information for follow-up
• In the event of an incident provide “How to” sessions in command posts to
socialize ease of use
• Scalable Access
• What user groups are needed for a given region?
• Public, Responder, NRDA, Trustee, Tribal, Industry, etc
• What determines public vs responder?
• Publically available elsewhere?
• JIC or similar group?
• Strategy for Multi-Function sites going forward
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Public & Response separate sites?
• GoMex and Geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse vs Other Regional ERMAs
• Incident/Topic Focus
• Climate Change, Wildfires, Marine Debris, Tsunami
ERMA’s Event Driven
Flexibility & Customization
• Tracking of Assets
• AIS feed, Personnel locations, air assets, etc.
• Allowed ERMA Admins to filter ship track feed
• Search for ship’s MMSI from zoom tab
• Plug & Play with other systems
• Expansion of Tool Capabilities (IPaC & other agency tool
integration, AOI points, Labels, etc.)
• Ingest of custom feeds (SPOT forecasts for wildfires)
• Additional Functionality
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Auto-refresh
Animations
Bookmark Slideshows
Query by Polygon
Ability to launch sites on “the cloud”
Importance of Collaboration
• To Be Good Stewards of Tax Dollars
• Need to leverage resources & data
• For application buy in by partners
• To avoid duplication of effort & cost
• Response & Restoration is Multi-Organizational
• Multiple Federal Agencies
• Local and State Governments
• Private Sector
• Responsible party & their contractors
• Companies offering services to aid in response and recovery
NEW for Caribbean ERMA
Next Steps
• Caribbean ERMA
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First ERMA to receive Gulf of Mexico 2010-2011 upgrades
Stand Alone ERMA training TODAY
Continued work with region for more usability, additional data
Participating in conversations related to being prepared to protect
US interests regarding potential drilling in countries w/in close
proximity to Caribbean
• Working through NOAA security process for Cloud hosting
For More Information
• Kari Sheets, New England & Caribbean ERMA Lead
kari.sheets@noaa.gov
212.637.3579 (until July 15)
• Jill Bodnar, New England & Caribbean ERMA Co-Lead
jill.bodnar@noaa.gov
206.526.4561
• Michele Jacobi/Kim Jenkins , ERMA Program Lead
michele.jacobi@noaa.gov / kim.jenkins@noaa.gov
206.526.6830/843.202.2623
• Dr. Amy Merten, Spatial Data Chief
amy.merten@noaa.gov
206.526.6829
• www.erma.unh.edu/caribbean
Acknowledgments
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NOAA:
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Amy Merten
Michele Jacobi
Kim Jenkins
Kari Sheets
George Graettinger
Ben Shorr
Mark Miller
University of New Hampshire:
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Nancy Kinner
Robert St. Lawrence
Phillip Collins
Kurt Schwehr
Kathy Mandsager
Genwest Systems:
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Jill Bodnar
Janet Matta
JB Huyett
Zach Winters-Staszak
Hayley Pickus
Heather Lilly
Aaron Racicot, Z-Pulley
Allison Bailey, SoundGIS
Chander Ganesan, OTG
I.M. Systems Group
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Matt Dorsey
Laura Johnson
Jay Coady
Kim Zelo
Funding Sources: Coastal Response Research Center, US EPA Region
II, U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration and
Coastal Storms Program
Questions?