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Architecture for an Emergency Lane on the NII: Crisis Information Management
Architecture for an Emergency Lane on the NII: Crisis Information Management
Pages 364-373
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The implementation of the new technology of information must be combined with a sober realization that immense cultural changes wait occur within the emergency management community. If we focus on only the technological aspects of this change and do not consider the users' need to fee} in control of the new technology, adequate assimilation of the great benefits to be derived from it could be delayed by years.
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~ the field of emergency response, too many lives are open in jeopardy to risk trying out new technology in real circumstances. Under stress, emergency managers, even after buying and installing new technology, will tend to revert to their experience and intuitive judgment, which are comfortably familiar and have served them well in the past.
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The National Interagency Command System is built on the original FIRESCOPE and National Interagency Incident Fire Control models of the old Boise Interagency Fire Control Center. It enables the user to remet the uncertainty of the disaster scene quickly.
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For emergency managers, a system to filter the data glut must have a real time component that may be better served by expert systems, or the reasoning support of knowledge robots ("knowbots"~. Such expert systems, simulations, artificial intelligence, intelligent decision support systems, or even some other new tack may be the next exciting advance in the field of information management.
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The Crisis Communications Management Architecture Central to the concept of the crisis communications management system is the ND initiative that can provide the opportunity to make dramatic steps fonvard In crisis information handing. Let us envision this new information and communications support system as succeeding grids laid one on He over.
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The communications and wail use current and planned common-user communications systems, such as the evolving national communications infrastructure, and the present interlinking media communications networks for multimedia communications. The National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue believes that the emergency environment will become far more data-intensive and require far more technological agility in obtaining, handling, and transmitting data than we have experienced.
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The regional hubs and the command complexes wall share a consistent tactical picture through this series of information constructs. Like the regional hubs end the command complexes, the information centers are not physical but virtual "nets," established at the request and in the mix desired by each incident commander.
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Thinking of the diversity of sensors, communications, and resource systems as grids overlying the tactical crisis arena provides a readily understandable way of viewing the myriad of assets and stakeholders In the crisis communications infrastructure. Operationally, the impact is that dissimilar resources and/or units can be connected in the tactical grid, imposed over the operating area as though they were joining a regional power grid.
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When we think operationally of the Crisis Communications Management architecture as having a space grid of diverse sensors, supported by a dynamic, multinode communications grid, we are conceiving and operating the complex and geographically disparate electronics of today' s emergency response as a system to present the crisis scene as it really appears, containing all relevant information In a transparent, easily understood format. It is the C4} system designed to make communications transparent to the user and all sensors available In common formats, that allows us to conceive of the space and communications grids and of information movement between them.
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"Contingency Planning Using Expert Judgment in a Group Decision Support Center Environment," unpublished white paper available from George Washington University, Department of Engineering Management. Hdrrald, John R
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