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New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization - Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System (MA-SAS)
This project will enable the development of a provincial multi-agency situational awareness system (MA-SAS) that will equip the New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization (NB EMO) and its partners to better coordinate emergency activities, including their flood-fighting efforts every spring.
NB EMO leads provincial agencies, federal agencies, municipal governments, utilities, and others in preparing for and responding to annual flooding. In the past, these stakeholders invested too much time manually responding to information requests and extracting and sending situational awareness data to one another. This data is well suited to being sent over the Internet and displayed on electronic maps-capabilities offered by the MA-SAS.
This system will allow stakeholders to share data with one another through a central hub. Each agency on the system will be able to access all or part of the data available to them, without having to either request it or establish links to each other. This approach will enable stakeholders to operate much more efficiently than they can today. They will also gain awareness of situations faster-a key to saving property and lives.
Creating a provincial MA-SAS will result in local and regional partners leveraging the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI). CGDI data and technology enable decision-makers to integrate data from many sources and to develop models and visualize situations, providing valuable insights into social, environmental, and economic issues.
To manage and respond to threats and hazards, public safety and security organizations need to be aware of the situations they face. In support of this goal, this project is funded under the Situational Awareness GeoConnections priority area of focus for the Public Safety & Security Community
Primary Partner:
New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization
Fredricton,
New Brunswick;
Partners:
New Brunswick Security Emergency Directorate
City of Fredericton
City of Saint John
Town of Edmundston
RCMP Emergency Management
Department of National Defence
Red Cross
Emergency Management Ontario
Province of Saskatchewan
Marine Emergency Management Agency
CARIS
Essential Technologies
Funding From GeoConnections: $210,000.00 ( 50.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: September, 2008
Estimated Completion Date: December, 2009
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: New Brunswick;