“…access aerial photographs from before and after the tornado to assess the damage, determine the property tax valuation of each damaged structure and quickly put together a disaster assistance request for the federal government…”

In late 2005, MDA Federal Inc. (formerly Earth Satellite Corporation) deployed a similar web-based system using ESRI’s ArcIMS to provide intelligence to respond to damage in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

That is great! It would surely be helpful for all. However if the civil population gets access to it as well, don’t you think it would be very unsafe and insecure. I’m sure there should be some very secured way to keep it only for the top brass’s access.
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Greg Mathew
Alabama Drug Treatment

Sharing homeland security information within the government, even between departments, can be tricky due to the information’s sensitive and proprietary nature. Agencies fear that sensitive data, such as the locations of critical infrastructure, will leak. And with no secure platform for sharing data, governmental departments and agencies often favor secrecy over transparency. This reluctance to share information also makes it difficult for government officials and emergency teams to respond effectively to emergency situations, since they have no common data set or means of communicating across departments or teams. Financially, limited information-sharing can also lead to overlapping expenses as departments separately acquire the same sets of data.
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According to Chris Johnson, Vice President of Geospatial Technologies at GTAC, “the thing that has made Virtual Alabama successful is that contributing groups have no fear of redistribution of the data.” Because of this level of security, Virtual Alabama has created a community of users across government lines that are dependent on each other. “The strongest part of this program is not the hardware, the platform, or the data collection, but the community of users that has given strength to the program,” says Ms. Johnson. Moreover, she notes, “we see Google Earth Enterprise as a keystone to this program” for a number of reasons, not the least of which is usability. “We call it a twelve-year-old program,” she adds, “because any twelve-year-old could use it. We hope you don’t mind.”
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Sam Fisher
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