The California Emergency Management Agency (Cal-EMA) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Unit staff participates in Federal, State and Local information and data sharing groups. The GIS Unit coordinates services, data, and personnel with agencies for emergency GIS response; using standards for software, data and projections that allows for a clear and consistent product for statewide emergency management. The current data standard employs a directory file folder structure for the storage and management of files collected for an incident.

Cal-EMA, in partnership with the Homeland Security Regional Technology Center (RTC) will take the existing structure and crosswalk it to an Emergency Response Geospatial Data Model (ERGDM) and demonstrating the use of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM).  Initial efforts will be conducted with San Diego data.  Documentation from the San Diego effort will then be tested by migrating Sacramento regional data to the new Cal-EMA ERGDM.

The anticipated results of the project will be an ERGDM and demonstrating the use of Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD) as described by NIEM.  Additional products include documentation describing the use of the model and a “how- to” paper describing the use of the ERGDM and IEPD from a GIS user perspective.

Interim Report

California Emergency Management Agency

Contacts:

Diane Vaughan
916-845-8542
Diane.Vaughan@calema.ca.gov

Paul Hardwick
619-594-8992
phardwick@homelandsecurity.sdsu.edu