Abstract
Reengineering the Consequences Assessment Tool Set
Track: Disaster Management and Emergency Response
Author
The purpose of this project is to modify DTRA's legacy CATS program, making it compatible with current and synergistic Department of Defense (DoD) computational tools including, the Joint Effects Model (JEM) and Joint Warning and Alerting Network (JWARN). CATS is a GIS based toolset that provides a generalized capability to estimate the extent of technological disasters and help visualize the hazard areas from them. CATS is being re-engineered using the Esri Commercial Joint Mapping Tool Kit (CJMTK) software libraries. The CATS tools generate hazard plumes and depositions from releases of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) materials as computed by HPAC, ALOHA, and Toxic Industrial Materials (TIM) software as well as estimating blast effects from high explosives. The code uses extensive Geodatabases to help visualize the dispersion of these hazards into the environment and predict the effects on the exposed and at-risk population.
William Samuels
SAIC
1710 SAIC Drive
McLean, Virginia 22102
United States
Phone: (703) 676-8043
Fax: (703) 676-5323
E-mail: william.b.samuels@saic.com
Christopher Kiley
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
8725 Johm J. Kingman Road
Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060
United States
Phone: 703 676 3460
Fax: 707 676 1892
E-mail: christopher.kiley@dtra.mil