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Tuesday, December 2. 2008

Microsoft Eagle 1: R&D Implementation of Integrated Data/ Maps for Emergency Response

CIO Australia highlights Eagle 1, along with other "in development" technologies. This one sounds all too familiar to me after witnessing many OGC interoperability demos.

Eagle 1 pulls information from multiple databases and uses geospatial mapping technology to create an interactive map that would show, for example, all the schools, military bases, hospitals in the affected area. Plus it would show how many people are in the hospitals, current evacuation models and casualties or danger zones, even a plume model that could show where a gas leak is heading.

There's nothing to note what enables access to all those databases, but there's a note that "the process of configuring the data extractions will likely involve a team of Microsoft disaster specialists."

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Microsoft at 07:13 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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thankes for the technologey
dr.fakhri
#1 FAKHRI GHONEIM on 2008-12-05 05:12 (Reply)
Not the technology is the succes behind Eagle One, it's the succesfull implementation of this technology in the context of disastermanagment on every level (from the men in the field to the minister). Two worlds have come together: geo-information and disastermanagement.
#2 Jene van der Heide (sr. pm Cadastre NL) (Link) on 2008-12-05 07:26 (Reply)
It may be the successful implementation, but it's also the quality of the uderlying data. Regardless of advances in technology and the implementation of those technologies it is still "garbage in, garbage out". We now have the potential to do even more amazing things with bad data.
#2.1 Michael Sweet on 2008-12-05 09:04 (Reply)
This sounds like a perhaps more proprietary version of the EU INSPIRE initiative - no less interesting for that
#2.1.1 Paul Crisp on 2008-12-08 08:45 (Reply)

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