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The Heartland Emergency Response Exchange aims to securely share environmental, health, and natural resource information among partner agencies. By leveraging the Exchange Network, the project enhances decision-making and risk assessment processes, informing emergency planning and response procedures.
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Heartland Emergency Response Exchange
Objectives • Effectively manage and proactively exchange information • Enhance decision-making and risk assessment • Inform emergency planning and response procedures
Goals of the Project • Securely share available environmental, health, and natural resource information • Leverage the Exchange Network for dynamic transmission of information • Enhance the decision-making and risk assessment processes
Project Partners • Iowa Department of Natural Resources • Kansas Department of Health and Environment • Missouri Department of Natural Resource • Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality • Nebraska Health and Human Services • EPA Region 7
Project Key Data Customers • EOC agency/staff in each state • Nebraska Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) • MO Emergency Response Commission (MERC) & State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) • Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management • Kansas Division of Emergency Management • Local Emergency Planners • EPA
Collaboration and Reuse • Partners working together to improve information sharing with EOCs: • A standardized way • Better documentation • Better understanding • Leverage existing integration work • Acquiring data from external agencies • improve relationships between all agencies • Previous grant products
Critical Project Principles • Reuse existing products: • Use existing Schema, Shared Schema Components and EN tools when possible, develop new when necessary • Produce re-usable products: • Expansion into future identified flows • Use by other data producers or consumers • Create EOC-applicable and relevant products: • Ensure relevant information is exchanged • Useful interpretive products are developed • Cross-state/Cross-agency Collaboration: • Improve data sharing and collaboration across state and agency lines
The Project Exchange • Secure, timely, cross-agency exchanges of information • A collaborative process of interoperable, sharable and secure technologies and tools • Draw from other EN products and lessons learned • Pacific Northwest Water Quality Exchange • Health and Environmental Data Integration Project for Homeland Security • Incorporate and expand upon EN efforts by: • Focusing on inter-state as well as inter-agency data transactions • Product reuse • Developing interpretive products
Method and Components • Develop a web service based exchange • Data Flow Specification and Documentation • Partner Nodes • Client Application • Supplemental e-Documentation
Data Retrieval Tool Functionality • Aggregation Service • Combines data from multiple sources into a single merged data view • Used for queries, spatial views, maps, reports and documents • Offline Data Cache • A locally cached replica of aggregated data to support off-line use
Data Retrieval Tool Functionality • eDocumentation • Aggregated data presented to the user in a form of report augmented with other available contextual information • Synchronization Engine • Keeping the locally cached data up-to-date • Incremental data update – can continue to work while updates in progress
Data Retrieval Tool Functionality • Map Viewer • Spatial representation of data providing an interface: • To display an already cached data • To perform queries based on spatial data parameters • Data Export • Export cached data in multiple formats to augment external systems such as EOP GIS systems
Data Retrieval Tool Functionality • Automatic application updates via EN nodes • Client will check to see if a new version of the application is available each time it connects to receive data • If so, the client will be updated seamlessly, thus ensuring all users can easily stay current with the latest application features
