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Track: Federal Systems
Thomas Chatfield
Bechtel Nevada
PO BOX 98521
Las Vegas, NV 89196-8521
Telephone: 702-295-8932
Fax: 702-295-8716
Keith Miller, Lauree Ogiela
Establishment of a Worldwide Emergency Response Database for the U.S. Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) is currently responsible for providing emergency GIS mapping support to the DOE Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in Washington, D.C. This support includes providing maps and image information in both soft-copy and hard-copy formats. The Map Display System (MDS) was developed for the DOE, Office of Emergency Management (OEM) for use in the EOC. The MDS was originally designed to provide information for DOE's role in radiological emergency management and response. The more recent tasking requires that the data be in place to provide support for energy-related matters during all types of natural disasters and man-made events. The current requirements are to develop and maintain a worldwide and nationwide mapping database consisting of, but not limited to the following: streets, rivers, railroads, highways, pipelines, electric transmission lines, airport runways, population, and county, state, and country boundaries. Other data
requirements include showing locations of DOE sites, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) sites, Department of Defense (DoD) facilities, Power Plants (nonnuclear), airports, hospitals, physicians, business points, as well as showing site maps, aerial photographs, satellite images, and textual information. The primary goals are to establish a database as complete and accurate as possible, then link it to an easy-to-use interface. The user interface operates in a Windows environment using both ArcInfo and ArcView with functions that allow for saving and opening of map views, map pan and zoom, quick access to cities and site maps, user definable attributes to display, population computation, map annotation, and on-line help. The discussion will also include a section discussing the physical setup of the network and servers that also serve as factors in the database design and implementation.
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