Situational Awareness

How to get it and share it using

Depiction “What-if” Mapping

Software

Getting and Sharing Situational Awareness

Scenario: Any significant event

Goals: Rapidly gain geographical situational

awareness Establish and Maintain a geographical

Common Operating Picture across multiple agencies

Problems with Existing Solutions: Cost Prohibitive Complexity Limited Capability Systems Incompatibility

Getting and Sharing Situational Awareness

The Depiction Solution:

Simplifies data gathering, integration and display Intuitive “game-like” interface Powerful yet agile design Provides Quickstart data sources for any U.S.

location Lets you easily add public and proprietary data to

build your “picture” of what’s happening Integrates email “Live reports”; updating your

display Affordable by all

Shared Email Account

County EOC

City EOC

Agency EOC

Citizen Reports

Mobile Command

Volunteer Reports

Agency Manager

First Responders

County PIO

Getting and Sharing Situational Awareness

Government EOC

Common Operating Picture

Your Depiction

Anyone can send “depiction” events or elements by e-mail

Interact in real-time from any location

Agency EOC

Field Reports

Getting and Sharing Situational Awareness

Getting and Sharing Situational Awareness

Agency Reporting Net

Getting and Sharing Situational Awareness

countyreports@depiction.com

exercise@depiction.com

Common Operating Picture

Live Demonstration of Depiction “What-if” Mapping Software

Creating a Depiction and using Quickstart data sources

Adding public & proprietary content Adding “Live reports”

Using “Send as email” to update the “net” and/or individual stations

Using “Live reports” and “Send as email” simultaneously to ensure end-to-end connectivity

Subscribing to multiple email “nets” at the same time

Common Operating Picture

Common Operating Picture

HOW to get data into a “Depiction”

Common Operating Picture

Getting and Sharing Situational Awareness

Depiction:

Leverages ubiquitous email protocols to exchange information in real time

Lets you update Depiction users and others using emails sent directly from Depiction

Allows participation in multiple email “nets” simultaneously

Maintains unique identifier for each “mapped” element being reported on.

Lets you “keep the picture” even when the internet is OOC