Emergency Response in National Marine Sanctuaries

Symons, Lisa; Pavia, Robert; Hodges, Marc K.

doi:10.1109/oceans.2005.1639786

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“…The use of sensors for Emergency Medical care is probably the most wide-spread. Bluetooth compatible devices have been studied in great detail to assimilate data and information and interface to a central server by means of a cellular phone [9,10,11]. Sensors are also used in the case of emergency evacuations [12] from within buildings.…”

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Test-Bed for Emergency Management Simulations

Vaidyanathan¹

2010

IJACSA

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Abstract-We present a test-bed for Emergency ManagementSimulations by contrasting two prototypes we have built, CAVIAR and Reverse 111. We outline the desirable design principles that guide our choices for simulating emergencies and implement these ideas in a modular system, which utilizes proactive crowd-sourcing to enable emergency response centers to contact civilians co-located with an emergency, to provide more information about the events. This aspect of proactive crowd-sourcing enables Emergency response centers to take into account that an emergency situation's inherent nature is dynamic and that initial assumptions while deploying resources to the emergency may not hold, as the emergency unfolds. A number of independent entities, governmental and non-governmental are known to interact while mitigating emergencies. Our test-bed utilizes a number of agents to simulate various resource sharing policies amongst different administrative domains and non-profit civilian organizations that might pool their resources at the time of an emergency. A common problem amongst first responders is the lack of interoperability amongst their devices. In our test-bed, we integrate live caller data obtained from traces generated by Telecom New Zealand, which tracks cell-phone users and their voice and data calls across the network, to identify co-located crowds. The test-bed has five important components including means to select and simulate Events, Resources and Crowds and additionally provide a visual interface as part of a massive online multi-player game to simulate Emergencies in any part of the world. We also present our initial evaluation of some resource sharing policies in our intelligent agents, which are part of our test-bed.

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Section: A Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Test-Bed for Emergency Management Simulations

Vaidyanathan¹

2010

IJACSA

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“…Up until 2018, CO-OPS did not have a standalone, surface buoybased measurement system in its operationally ready inventory. Over the years, limited efforts to design, develop, and test a standalone surface buoy-based measurement system were pursued; however, previous efforts primarily focused on incident response applications, such as oil spills, vessel groundings, and other maritime emergencies that require a rapid establishment of real-time current/met observations (Burke & Graff, 2007;Symons & Holman, 2006). Although previous efforts included successful de-velopment and field demonstrations of a surface buoy platform, related systems never transitioned to broader support of NCOP and PORTS operational applications.…”

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Recent Development and Field Test of CO-OPS' Real-Time, Shallow Water CURrents BuoY (CURBY)

Fiorentino¹,

Heitsenrether²,

Kirk³

et al. 2022

mar technol soc j

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Ocean Service Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) manages the National Current Observation Program (NCOP) and Physical Oceanographic Real-Time Systems (PORTS®). These programs provide tide and current predictions, as well as real-time current and meteorological information. Outdated current predictions, navigational support requirements, and incident response scenarios (e.g., oil spills, vessel accidents) have highlighted CO-OPS' need for a rapidly deployable system that provides near-surface current and meteorological observations. To address this, CO-OPS designed, developed, and tested a real-time system based on a surface buoy platform, hereinafter referred as CURrents BuoY (CURBY). This paper provides an overview of the system design, field test results, operational applications, and future plans.In 2018, CO-OPS completed the build, integration, and testing of the first prototype CURBY. A successful field test was completed during 2018 in the Chesapeake Bay, and the first operational deployment followed shortly on the Delaware River in 2019. Resulting measurements were used to improve tidal current predictions and to plan for a 2021 regional survey. Initial success with tidal current survey operations led to design enhancement and wider use. During 2020‐2021, CO-OPS partnered with the NOAA Office of Response and Restoration to build two new CURBYs to support emergency response applications in the Gulf of Mexico region. During 2022, two CURBY systems were deployed in the Columbia River, Oregon, to support additional NCOP operations. Future plans include establishing a long-term CURBY system for Kings Bay, Georgia, PORTS®.

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