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Easy to Use with ‘point
and click’ operations and a simple tabbed interface
to access a common (shared) situation maps, planning maps
and tools such as hazard models. This mapping does not require
a technician to operate it yet GIS technicians will appreciate
its powerful GIS mapping features and interfaces to existing
GIS applications and data. |
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Customized Map Tabs give users the right
level of map detail and functionality based on their logon
role and skill level. |
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Automated Logging of drawing activities
on map provides a chronological record of ‘what happened’
and an audit trail. This history log enables a ‘replay’
function to review historical maps and response activities
for debriefings and exercise simulations (this replay function
is a planned capability). |
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Standard Symbology and Terminology is used
throughout the application, including Incident Command System
terminology and US Department of Homeland Security’s
new standardized emergency map symbols. |
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Interoperability through OPENGIS® design
that allows emergency managers to access and share GIS map
data regardless of where the data resides. EmerGeo in essence
“sits on top” of your mapping systems and data
– it leverages investment in these systems. Data from
corporate servers is served to EmerGeo either as raster or
vector data layers. |
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Cost-effective with a free web client version
available for simple map viewing to a cost-effective ‘Smart
Client’ with powerful drawing and analysis tools and
“offline” operation capabilities. |
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Scalable, Robust, Secure, and Distributed
architecture supports one or hundreds of web browser or ‘smart
client’* users across an enterprise. EmerGeo supports
several relational databases already used by your organization,
including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and Jet Engine (MS
Access). |
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Multiple Hosting Options gives you the
flexibility of running the application on your server(s),
our server(s), or a combination of the two with data supplied
by both your corporate GIS map server and our hosting server. |
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Optional Hazard Models including Hazardous
Materials plume models (e.g. ALOHA, ERG2000), Flood
and Earthquake shake models. Customers can run their own modeling applications
and overlay the output onto EmerGeo maps for planning, distribution and
decision-support. |
| *Note: ‘Smart Clients’
include an applet that runs on local PC’s and caches/synchronizes
geospatial data with the map server. These local secure data
caches act as temporary stores for critical data in case of
network or server problems. This distributed architecture
should be considered “essential” since failure
to access critical emergency data and tools is not an option. |
EmerGeo helps organizations to promote standardization and streamline communications by organizing and displaying data in standardized ways (e.g. data categorization and symbology based on Homeland Defence standards), guiding users through standard planning and response processes using ‘wizards’, communicating information through a role-based publishing function, providing a common spatial interface that accesses multiple emergency management software applications and technologies, and presenting the right level of detail and functionality (tools) to the right role in each emergency organization.
Just as you can use any vendor's Web browser to get simple text and image data from Web sites that use any other
vendor's Web server, now you can use EmerGeo’s "Smart Client" or "Web Map Viewer Client" to get simple or complex spatial
data (and geoprocessing services) from any vendor's Web map server. EmerGeo builds on the Open GIS Consortium's
open interoperability framework, which is a set of OPENGIS® Specifications that enable one Geographic Information
System – GIS (or other software application, not necessarily a GIS) - to reach across the Internet and intranets to invoke
processing services and retrieve data from another GIS (or other geoprocessing application).
EmerGeo makes Sun Microsystem's maxim, "the network is the computer," apply to spatial processing.
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