2009 Esri Southeast Regional User Group Conference

SYS—Meeting Real Needs with an Enterprise GIS System

GIS Fire Mobile Solutions (GFMS): GIS to Support Incident Preplanning and Response

—Bruce Bishop, Geographic Information Services, Inc.

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The City of Marietta's GIS Department completed a GIS needs assessment and implementation plan for the Fire Department in July 2008. One of the immediate requirements identified in the implementation plan was to make the GIS data readily available in the Fire Trucks with the new ROCKET system (laptops and wireless network). The City developed the GIS Fire Mobile Solution (GFMS). Powered by Esri's ArcGIS Server mobile technology, the GFMS will accomplish the primary objective of providing the Fire Department with immediate access to up-to-date information, regardless of their location, and offers a range of mobile GIS field mapping solutions that apply these current technologies to help users make sound decisions in the field. Additionally, the GFMS will provide routing, preplan tools and build the foundation for future field edits that can be synchronized to a command center, like an EOC, real-time edits from the field providing command and control with information to make effective decisions. Some of the key features of GFMS include:

1. Geocode Search
2. Identify
3. Standard Map Navigation—Zoom, Pan
4. Synchronization—Sync mobile devices with ArcGIS Server
5. Global Positioning System (GPS) Enabled—Real time tracking
6. Routing—Will support two forms of routing: Origin to destination and Multiple Destinations
7. Preplan Tool—Access all documents associated to an incident's location (building plans, HAZMAT, etc.)
8. Multi View Service Tool—Provide access to Google Street

View and Microsoft Virtual Earth Birdseye will be very valuable for preplan analysis.