1. DHS Information Technology Evaluation Program (ITEP) Project Pennsylvania Project: Enterprise Geospatial Technology Data Architecture (EGTDA) Jim Knudson (jknudson@state.pa.us) Stacey White (stwhite@state.pa.us)

2. EGTDA Project Background Grant amount: $603,220 PA project started with a concept and a blank slate – no existing project to augment, built everything from a bare bones architecture Contractors started 6/1/05 (later than most participants), project completed on 3/31/06 (10 months) NOT a pilot project for Pennsylvania… –Amazing production capabilities built in 10 months! –We accomplished the impossible…

3. Project Participants Governor’s Office Pennsylvania Emergency Mgmt Agency DHS Geospatial Mgmt Office/OCIO ITEP Program Office GeoDecisions ESRI GTO PA State Police Office for Information Technology Regional Counter-Terrorism Task Forces

4. DHS ITEP Grant Project PA project defined as Enterprise GT Data Architecture (EGTDA) –Evaluation of DHS Geospatial Enterprise Architecture (GEA), start of PA GEA –Enterprise Geospatial Data Repository (designed, built, populated) –Interoperable GT Data Sharing utilizing Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Mapping Services (14 function-based services, e.g. transportation, utilities) –Geospatial Mission Applications – situational awareness –Reusable GT Web Service Components – routing, geocoding

5. Initial ITEP Architecture Concept

7. Geospatial Enterprise Server Architecture (GESA) Fault tolerant, high availability, 24x7 operational capabilities built for mission critical public safety applications that supports –Consolidated Enterprise Geospatial Database –Shared Services GT Application hosting environment – for BGT and other agencies –OGC Mapping Services for information sharing –XML Web Services Reusable Components –Geospatial Portal Deployments ITEP project added additional storage and GIS software, with permission from DHS, we flipped our budget from equipment focused to services focused

8. Geospatial Portal Development Competitive procurement produced best technical, lowest cost vendor solution Leverages the IRRIS Geospatial Framework for Pennsylvania –$15M Investment in IRRIS by the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Traffic Engineering Agency (SDDCTEA), implemented by GeoDecisions –Pennsylvania recognizes Mr. Paul Allred and Mr. Marc Barthello from SDDCTEA for their vision in sharing geospatial framework source code resources from the IRRIS project to further military, homeland security, and public safety initiatives for states and other organizations to utilize and add new components to the framework –Not Shareware or Open Source, but Shared Source

9. PA Data Sharing Before ITEP… Agency X Agency Y Agency Z Agency ? SneakerNet?

10. Adjacent States PA Data Sharing After ITEP… Agency X Agency Y Agency Z All Agencies RCTTF FED Enterprise Geospatial Database Agency W Local Govt Data Producers Data Consumers

11. EGTDA Concept of Operations Future DataFusion Center PEIRS Incident Database PEIRS Reportable Incidents AllIncidents (Future) Thematic Incident Maps HSWG I ncident Symbology Quick Plume Model Address Geocoding Routing Map View Metadata Spatial Searches ITEPGTWebServices Geospatial Enterprise Database DHS Advisories Agency Information County 9-1-1 Incidents Other Information PEIRS Geospatial Database Data Replication TEP2005Project EnterpriseGeosptiaTechnologiesDataArchitecture P EIR DHS ITEP 2004 PA Enterprise Geospatial Technologies Data Architecture PEIRS Geospatial Enhancements Conceptual Design

12. EGTDA Concept of Operations Augment PEMA’s PA Emergency Incident Response System (PEIRS) with robust geospatial capabilities Develop interoperable OGC mapping services that can be accessed over the web and used by agencies, counties, first responders Develop interoperable and reusable XML web service geospatial application components

13. GATIR Functionality PEMA PEIRS Added Functionality –Replaced incident location red and green ‘dots’ with meaningful incident symbology based on PEIRS category –Role based user security mechanism for incidents – PEMA PEIRS controls who sees what incidents based on the user login –Thematic Incident Detail Maps – type of incident determines symbology and displayed layers, 1-5 mile distance rings, key assets/critical infrastructure nearby highlighted

14. GATIR Functionality PEMA PEIRS Added Functionality –Federal Disaster Declaration Map Automation –EOC/Situational Awareness Wall Map –Mapping, analysis, geocoding, routing –PEMA maintains control for access and details, GATIR assists in mapping and analysis –Difficult part was that PEIRS was being rewritten in.NET as the same time as our GATIR project was being developed

15. Lessons Learned HSWG Symbology was a good starting point, but for electronic mapping and use in the EOC, we had to significantly modify the symbology to be useful and meaningful It was critical to have the development team onsite to work side by side on a project of such short duration. Implementation decisions were made daily. Needed to document decisions in writing instead of verbally so that intent was captured correctly

16. Lessons Learned Every implementation is different, and nobody has really figured out the best solution for load balanced, fault tolerant geospatial applications. We re-architected our design in the middle of the project to fix stability and performance problems Map colors were very important to convey information and be visible in the EOC on the projection screens – red colors are the most critical, orange and purple are important, green and blue are informational

17. EGTDA and GATIR

22. Wall map slide

26. Quick maps slide

28. GTO Integration Vision

29. The End Result of PA ITEP/EGTDA ITEP gave us a unique opportunity to build and enhance Situational Awareness in PA for many agencies DHS and other cluster partners brought intellectual property and expertise to work with states on their projects GIS/GT better recognized for the value it provides for visualization and intelligence Positioned to become the core of the PA Data Fusion/Intelligence Center Technology Blueprint

30. The End Result of PA ITEP/EGTDA Data sharing now occurs daily, so that when an emergency occurs, it will be easier to share critical information Many lessons learned, numerous standards and best practices defined Start of Geospatial Enterprise Architecture for Pennsylvania IRRIS framework can be used to quickly set up geospatial portals for federal, state, and regional operations, all participants benefit from additional capabilities that are added

31. Without PA ITEP Opportunity… Agency X Agency Y Agency Z Agency ? SneakerNet?

32. THANKS! ITEP Project Office –Tom Bold –Greg Barnard –Matt Biancucci DHS GMO –Ryan Cast –Dan Betz –Tom McCarty –Dan Cotter –Dave Ridley Maryland ITEP Project –Matt Felton GeoDecisions –Sarah Burkett –Kelly Fisher ESRI –Ian Kramer –Mark Lecher GTO –Stacey White –Mary Fulton –Bill Brodie

33. PA GTO Website http://www.gis.state.pa.us