Joint Task Force – Homeland Defense Builds a Common Operational Picture with Google Earth
October 25, 2012 at 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
The security for the Asia-Pacific Economic Collaboration summit in 2011 in Honolulu, Hawaii involved many federal, state & local agencies. The complex task of coordinating information sharing among agencies was the responsibility of Joint Task Force – Homeland Defense (JTF-HD). JTF-HD turned to Google Earth technology to build a visualization capability that enabled all agencies to share information easily & ensure a safe and secure summit.
What you will learn:
- Best practices for sharing geospatial information among federal, state & local agencies
- How to incorporate data from many sources into your own Google Earth globe
- How do get accurate maps with limited bandwidth or no connection at all.
Speaker: Marie Kennedy, Joint Task Force – Homeland Defense
Sponsored by Google.
In addition to the techniques demonstrated, I suspect the main lesson will be leveraging information/services that already exist.
Or information integration if you prefer a simpler description.
Information can be integrated by conversion or mapping.
Which one you choose depends upon your requirements and the information.
Reusable information integration (RI2), where you leverage your own investment, well, that’s another topic altogether. 😉
Ask: Are you spending money to be effective or spending money to maintain your budget relative to other departments?
If the former, consider topic maps. If the latter, carry on.