How To Create A Common Operational Picture With ArcGIS

The concept of Common Operational Picture’s has been growing steadily over the last few months as agencies look for tools to monitor, respond and manage situations as they arise.

A COP creates broad situational awareness by combining important geographic information system (GIS) basemap data, such as imagery, critical infrastructure, and hazards, with changing, up-to-the-minute information from cameras, sensors, and other communication devices.

ESRI will be hosting a seminar on September 24, 2009 to demonstrate how a COP can be created using ArcGIS.

Creating a Common Operational Picture with ArcGIS will air at www.esri.com/lts at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. (Pacific daylight time).

A few key areas will be the focus allowing attendees to get a full understanding of what COP’s are, how they work and how to go about putting one together.

Attendees will learn

• What a COP means and involves
• How and why a COP created using GIS provides complete situational awareness
• What’s needed to put a COP in place, including requirements for data management, planning, analysis, situational awareness, and field operations support

This will be a great seminar to attend and I do suggest you tune in if you can. COP’s are becoming more and more common as agencies look for newer tools out there. ESRI has some great tools to address this area. Tune in to find out more.

A press release on this seminar has also been released and this can be found here: http://www.esri.com/news/…