Regional Common Operating Picture Dashboard Series

With an ever increasing number of disasters impacting citizens throughout the Nation, the need and criticality of regional situational awareness for emergency management has never been higher. In 2015, CUSEC and its Member States, with major funding support from the Delta Regional Authority, partnered to implement the first phase of a new regional information sharing project using geographic information systems (GIS) and other emerging technology to support emergency response, recovery, and community resiliency. Integral to this project is the CUSEC Regional Common Operating Platform (RCOP)—a cloud-based GIS and information management and sharing platform. The CUSEC RCOP was established to provide an eight-state operational view of essential elements of information (EEIs) such as power outages, transportation infrastructure, critical facility status, shelter status, and more. The RCOP is capable of aggregating this EEI data from hundreds of different service providers and databases into one platform for regional situational awareness, as well as integrating with existing systems. It automates data collection and enables emergency managers to focus on higher priority tasks such as identifying and sending resources to an affected area, instead of spending time on information gathering and data entry—a costly and labor intensive task. The purpose of the CUSEC RCOP is singular—improving regional information sharing and situational awareness to save lives and lessen the overall impacts of disasters. It also supports at least four mission areas under Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8): National Preparedness including, Purposeful use and sharing of data and information that spans pre- and post-disaster phases; Systematic coordination of intra- and inter-state mutual aid; Integration and interoperability of EM tools and technologies across multiple jurisdictions; and Enhancement of response capabilities through establishment of private-public partnerships. The CUSEC RCOP is a unique platform and is the largest implementation of its kind in the United States for emergency management purposes. The ability to seamlessly collect, aggregate, and share data from hundreds of different data providers has never been done on this scale—it is a national model of excellence for information sharing to improve disaster response and recovery. Change-log 2018-09-18: Added tabs for ESF#1: Communications and Private Sector. 2018-07-05: [[UPDATE]] Updated URLs of the main CUSEC Regional Common Operating Picture Dashboard Series App, and embedded apps, to remove the source organization name 'cusec.maps'. This addresses issue in ArcGIS Online that required users accessing app to sign into CUSEC organization. 2018-05-01: [[UPDATE]] Added ESF#1 (CUSEC Region Transportation Viewer). 2018-02-14: Initial draft of tabbed dashboard, including tabs for ESF#12 ( CUSEC Regional Power Outage Summary Dashboard ), ESF#4 (Firefighting dashboard), ESF#6 (Shelters). Please leave feedback or questions in the Comments section below.