1Florida Division of Emergency Management

Richard Butgereitrichard.butgereit@em.myflorida.com GIS Administrator850-413-9907

SERT Geospatial Assessment Tool for Operations and Response

http://map.floridadisaster.org/GATOR

Geospatial Assessment Tool for Operations and Response

• web mapping application• real-time data like weather radar, watches,

storm reports• base map, event, and post-event data

GATOR

• 11/08 – installed ArcGIS Server, the engine behind GATOR• 02/09 – Virtual USA Regional Operational Platform Pilot project begun• 07/09 – started running development GATOR, based upon VIPER• 09/09 – started serving KML network links for Google Earth users• 11/04/09 – GATOR deployed for ROPP capstone exercise • 11/10/09 – first real-world use of GATOR directly following exercise with

Hurricane Ida• 01/10 – GATOR used with both hard freezes in early January and with Operation

Haiti Relief throughout the month• 05/10 – 09/10 GATOR used heavily for Deepwater Horizon Response• 10/10 – focus on integrating additional data sources into GATOR• 05/11 – SERT GATOR created, secured for State Emergency Response Team • 07/11 – SWO GATOR created, integrating State Watch Office daily incidents

Timeline

GATOR and the DeepwaterHorizon Response

• SERT RECON Report application

RECON Reports

- Existing application for the SERT RECON Team

- Built primarily for hurricanes and floods

- Teams trained in use, reports triaged by RECON liaisons

- For this response, used to track reports of tar balls, recoverable product, shoreline and boom conditions

RECON Reports in GATOR

RECON Reports in GATOR

Vessel Tracking

Shoreline Cleanup• Tool spun up specifically for the Branches to allow them to develop tasking

in response to RECON and other reports, as well as indicate status of cleanup activities

- Tool rapidly developed and deployed, with significant feedback from the Situation Units of Branches 1 and 2.

- Reporting and boom/skimming operations tools to come.

Shoreline Cleanup

Geotagged Photos

Common Locations

Attach Resources to Common Locations

Fixed Locations

Users – EOCsJFOs

Divisions/Branches

EM Constellation

• Integration with Red Cross National Shelter System– Open shelter locations and population counts

• Integration with EM Constellation– Mission requests location and status– Situation Reports, Incident Action Plans, other information messages

• Integration with State Resource Management Network– PODs, LSAs

• Integration with State Watch Office Incident Tracker– Share some incidents with FloridaDisaster.org GATOR

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Updates…