Direct Relief International (DRI)
Initial CAP Lessons Learned
Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love UICDS
Dr. Andrew Schroeder - DRI
Joel Myhre - Nordic Geospatial
www.DirectRelief.org
www.NordicGeospatial.com
Overview
• Introduction to Direct Relief International (DRI)
• SAP Enterprise Data and GIS Efforts for humanitarian
medical assistance
• DRI Enterprise IT (SAP, Google, ESRI, etc.) Business
Drivers for Implementing Common Alerting Protocol
in the US and Globally
• eGIS Strategy for Emergency Management
Situational Awareness and CAP-EDXL via UICDS Pilot
• Concluding Remarks and Feedback
Much like the World Health
Organization, the Marshall Plan,
the transistor, cybernetics and
information theory, Direct Relief
International was founded in 1948.
OUR MISSION:
Efficient, targeted and global scale delivery of
humanitarian medical relief to health care
professionals treating vulnerable populations
without regard to politics, religion, race,
gender, ethnicity or ability to pay.
… AND MANY OTHERS
DRI Enterprise IT:
Business Drivers for CAP Implementation
EVENTS
VULNER ABILITIES
CHANGE
SUPPLIES
DATA
CAP SCENARIOS: eGIS Strategy for
Emergency Management Situational Awareness
From California … to Japan
• DRI partners with the California Emergency Management
Agency (CalEMA), US Dept. of Health and Human Services
(HHS), CDC, etc. for domestic US disaster response and
preparedness
• DRI’s eGIS Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) incorporates
a myriad of NGO (InterAction partners), UN, local, US Federal
and State OGC (Open GIS Consortium) web mapping data
services in addition to CAP-EDXL
• For resilient Continuity of Operations (COOP), DRI hosts onsite
collections of over 150 GB of USGS imagery for California and
200+ vector layers displaying US HSIP Critical Infrastructure and
Key Resources (CIKR)
DRI Geo Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
•
Authoritative INTRA –
DRI SAP Data
•
Enhanced EXTERNAL
Live Data Feeds for
Situational Awareness
(CAP-EDXL, Geo RSS,
KML, etc.)
•
ArcGIS Server for
Consolidation,
Optimization,
Distribution & Geospatial
Analysis
•
Viewer Neutral/Agnostic
User-Defined
Operational Picture
(UDOP) – i.e. FLEX
Viewer, Ushahidi,
Sahana, GoogleEarth,
ArcGIS Desktop, mobile
(Android, RIM
Blackberry, iPhone, etc.)
eGIS Strategy for Emergency Management
Situational Awareness
•
DRI Emergency Managers have access to the US DHS Earth
(Google) and DHS iCAV (ESRI ArcGIS Server) Web-based
Applications – displayed here, California’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear
Power Plant
DIRECT RELIEF’S COMMON OPERATING PICTURE:
Events / Patients / Health Infrastructure / Medical Supply
Event data received in CAP format and linked to base layers
Supply data shared with clinical, supplier and public partners
from SAP in CAP format via UICDS Core
DRI & Unified Incident Command Decision
Support - UICDS
•
UICDS http://www.uicds.us
is a US-wide (soon to be
evaluated by NATO)
initiative for data sharing
and interoperability via
US DHS, SAIC, and over
70 vendor and
government entities
•
Complies with US
National Incident
Management System
(NIMS)
•
Incorporates a ‘tree of
knowledge’ approach >
Viewer Neutral – Google Earth with NOAA CAP
Alert via UICDS
Viewer Neutral – ESRI Viewer with USGS EQ &
Google GeoRSS Radiologic Alerts
Viewer Neutral – ESRI Viewer with Navigational
Charts and Terrain Profile for Myanmar EQ
Concluding Remarks
Lessons learned thus far:
–
CAP lives for us within an ecosystem of data sharing arrangements (GeoRSS, OGC,
etc.) as one key element facilitating rapid situational awareness.
–
Although CAP alerts can be used to transfer large amounts of data they tend to be
most effective in more limited and targeted forms to signify event definitions and
changes of state
–
Use of extant, Common Off the Shelf (COTS) technologies, plus standard data sharing
protocols (CAP-EDXL) and ongoing best-of-breed integrative initiatives (i.e. UICDS, US
HIFLD, UNGIWG, etc.) enables a small yet nimble NGO to meet and exceed
Emergency Management expectations and requirements
–
Outreach to regional academic and science & technology (S&T – i.e. UCLA CENS,
RAND Corp, Aerospace Corp, UCSB Spatial, etc.) subject matter experts (SMEs) and
thought leaders allows DRI to circumvent certain strategic or tactical/technical road
blocks
–
True vendor partners, such as SAP, ESRI, Google, SimplerSystems, etc. allow DRI to serve
as a test bed for beta technologies and R&D efforts
We welcome your feedback & feel free to contact us at
aschroeder@directrelief.org & joel@nordicgeospatial.com
Thank you