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.”