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Spatially enabling PFES & how

WebEOC has influenced
direction

DO Geoff Barnes
Emergency Operations Division

www.nt.gov.au/pfes
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Purpose
• To improve the quality, timeliness and
level of service delivered by PFES within
the Northern Territory through adoption of
“location based” information
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High Impact Events –last 5 yrs

Fires Floods Cyclones Intervention
• Queensland • Queensland • Queensland • NT
• NSW • NSW • WA
• Victoria • Victoria • NT
• Tasmania • WA
• SA • NT
• WA
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Managing Expectations

• Political Agency level

• Economic PRESSURE APPLIED

• Social Co-ordinated
• Technical
• Community WoG level
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Victorian Bushfires

A couple of images to refresh memories

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Victoria Police - Technology Used During Management
of Search Effort During Black Saturday Fires Feb 2009

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Reference
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Training of Field Users – By End line Users

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Fire Scar mapping for internal purposes; Noting that a
public facing version was provided by other agencies
and third parties

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Post Incident Analysis at Victoria
Police HQ
April 2009

Confronted with truck loads of data, imagery, technology,

systems, processes, records and information from
dozens of agencies………….

And facing the impending Royal Commission

The following 4-step approach evolved providing practical

guidance to stakeholders across the nation
 Field tools – Data integration – Improved decision-making
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4

Capture Transfer
Activate process Download or Transformation
to record, sense transmit data to from data to Dissemination
or detect field data server information

For example,
PDA
Process raw
I-Phone This can be data to add
Blackberry achieved context and
CCTV through various meaning,
Sonar
Digital Video technologies eg Deliver a
Vibration such as; Symbolisation user-centric
Thermal imaging Portrayal, operating
Light sensing
Infra-red
wireless, radio, Analysis, picture
Sonic fibre optic, Modelling,
MPEG satellite, business
JPEG microwave etc process or
LPR
FRT application
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“High – 3 Operations”
“High 3 operations” describe practices that have high
technology, high intensity and high reliability features.

• High technology – reliance on information and

communications
• High intensity – context of time pressures and
urgency
• High reliability – errors can lead to
unacceptable consequences
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Operating Spectrum
Prevention Preparedness Response Recovery

Left of bang Right of bang

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Add to this obligations of;

Prevention Preparedness Response Recovery
Legislation
Policy

Left of bang Right of bang

Procedures
ICT
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Add the complexity of Multi Agencies

Prevention Preparedness Response Recovery
Policy Legislative

Left of bang Right of bang

ICT Procedures
Agencies
Multi
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Co-ordinated approach
• And a Co-ordinated multi agency
approach becomes apparent;
• To this end PFES has elected to
implement a Co-ordination tool;
• Enter WebEOC
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WebEOC – Incident Management

• Internet based – Incident Management System

• Capacity to provide information to all agencies
• Allows information sharing – between agencies
• Can facilitate improved Critical Infrastructure
arrangements
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WebEOC can manage

• Incident log – Multi agency

• Significant Events
• Debrief log
• Tasking / Requests
• Media reports/briefs/updates
• Shelters
• Strategic Information and,
• GIS Mapping
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WebEOC can manage

• Situational awareness
• Strategic level information
• Multiple incidents
• Large scale planned events
• External agencies
• Common operating picture
• Information gathering outside an EOC
• Multiple EOC’s
• Tasking and resources (Priorities).
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What are we trying to achieve:

• Common ICS system across all agencies
(terminology)
• Incident response is not restricted to the
emergency services
• All government response
• Critical Infrastructure operators and liaison
• Need to include support agencies
• Linking independent systems
• Real time information sharing
• Incident information and GIS capability
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WebEOC & Geospatial

WebEOC Google Earth

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Multi Agency Tasking Board

• https://webeoc.pfes.nt.gov.au
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Notification Board
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Progressive Map Display

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Shelter Boards
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Recognition
 Other issues not necessarily
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addressed, but equally important

Currency Custodianship Standards Data Quality Privacy

Accuracy
FOI
Relevance
Streaming
Accessibility data
And we have some
Standardised
Social great opportunities
Integratable Networking ahead to collaborate
Enhanceable
and coordinate
Community
Engagement
service delivery
Symbology