Use of GIS in the Federal Emergency Management Information System (FEMIS)
The Federal Emergency Management Information System (FEMIS) is a decision support system that integrates all phases of emergency management. FEMIS is designed to support the emergency manager in planning, coordination, response, training and exercise. FEMIS uses a classic client-server architecture. The FEMIS component modules include a Human-Computer Interface (HCI), a relational database management system (RDBMS), an electronic mail system, a report generator, a project management system, a geographic information system (GIS), and hazard specific modeling and analysis tools. Of these systems, the RDBMS and the evacuation model reside on a UNIX platform while all the other software reside on networked personal computer (PC) workstations. ArcView 2.0 is the GIS product used to support FEMIS at each PC workstation. ARC/INFO is loaded on the UNIX-based server and is used to prepare the spatial data. This paper describes the way GIS support for FEMIS was built using Avenue scripts and the inter-process communications available through ArcView 2.0. It also identifies the limitations encountered and the way the HCI was built to overcome them. The final product is a fully integrated responsive, user-oriented decision support system, capable of linking the planning, response, recovery, and mitigation phases of emergency management.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 89547
- Report Number(s):
- PNL-SA-26086; CONF-9505242-1; ON: DE95014613
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1995 ESRI user conference, Palm Springs, CA (United States), 22-26 May 1995; Other Information: PBD: May 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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