SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, January 8, 2010 - Open Solutions Group, Inc (OpenSGI) and GeoDecisions recently completed the first phase of the San Diego Regional Emergency Geospatial Information Network (SDREGIN) project with a pilot presentation. The goal of SDREGIN is to provide a secure and interoperable spatial data architecture supporting the San Diego metropolitan region’s diverse emergency services and public safety agencies.

The presentation illustrated how the use of the SDREGIN architecture, data modeling, and information sharing capabilities can enable agencies to fuse disparate data into information with regional coverage, enhancing situational awareness beyond an immediate area of responsibility. SDREGIN information can be accessed through existing tools, applications, and hardware without needing to purchase special software or applications. Emergency professionals across the region can visualize working with the same data, providing a single, uniform source of information to utilize for emergency planning, response, and recovery, while also increasing interagency communication across desktop, web, and mobile platforms.

To facilitate the demonstration of this concept, OpenSGI developed Android mobile and thin-client web applications that allow users to visualize and work with San Diego regional geospatial data.  These tools provide a conceptual model for enhancing the communication and collaboration between dispatchers and field-based emergency responders in a spatial context.

An ESRI Flex application was developed by GeoDecisions to provide a demonstration of an advanced, feature rich Common Operating Picture. This application provides access to the SDREGIN pilot geodatabase, as well as, advanced spatial querying, video display, and reporting tools. The application includes a set of tools for creating and sharing user annotations in real time.

All of the applications capitalize on an automated Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) Service prototype. This service consumes and publishes geospatial data provided by different organizations within SDREGIN to a shared data model, and provides access to the geospatial data layers through interoperable OGC services.

Mobile GIS

Thin Web Viewer

FLEX Viewer

For more information on OpenSGI and the San Diego Regional Emergency Geospatial Information Network (SDREGIN) please contact Brian Levy (brian.levy@opensgi.com) or visit www.sdregin.org.

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