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Collaboration and Information Sharing in Haiti

Posted Tue, 02/16/2010 - 09:43 by louelin

In response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, many organizations, public and private, commercial and non-profit, from around the world, collaborated in exceptional ways to provide information, bring help quickly to Haitians, and support operational requirements. This was an exceptional effort by diverse collaborators, and those who contributed the support deserve great credit (as do officials who adopted innovative procedures to encourage and accept it). There are many lessons to be learned for application in future disasters, both in the US and abroad.

Choosing a family lawyer

Posted Fri, 01/15/2010 - 12:28 by LindaC

At some point, most people find themselves needing a lawyer (Tampa lawyer). For some, it is a traffic offense that they feel is unjust. For others, it is a much bigger problem. However, for most individuals and families, the need to hire a lawyer arises when dealing with financial matters or business issues.

When you are going to hire a professional to deal with financial or business matters—or any issues—that affect your family, it is important to hire a person that you feel is competent and up to the job. This person is someone that you are going to trust with important issues, and it is important that you hire a lawyer that is right for you.

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Lin Wells STAR-TIDES Blog 12-8-09 Camp Roberts Field Experiments

Posted Tue, 12/08/2009 - 07:56 by linwells

John Crowley recently has posted the results of last month's field experiments at Camp Roberts in central California (See his blog post and the attached file http://star-tides.net/files/RELIEF%2010-01%20AAR%20STARTIDES%20v3.pdf).

The November activities continued a most productive partnership with Dr. Ray Buettner and his team that conduct the quarterly RELIEF (Research and Experimentation for Local and Emergency First Responders) events. Since August, John, Ray, and a coalition of participants from the business, NGO (non-governmental organization), PVO (private volunteer organization), academic and defense communities have made tangible progress in areas such as:

- Processing satellite imagery distributed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

CP Roberts RELIEF 10-01 After Action Report

Posted Mon, 12/07/2009 - 13:34 by jcrowley

STAR-TIDES is publishing a public beta of the After Action Report from RELIEF 10-01 experimentation at CP Roberts in November 2009.

The STAR-TIDES experiments at RELIEF 10-01 tackled three challenges to building a common operating picture:

  1. Making effective use of aerial imagery.
  2. Exploring new methods for field data collection.
  3. Developing systems for integrating streams of information.

The STAR-TIDES team included representatives from Sahana; Open Mobile Consortium; InSTEDD; San Diego State University Visualization Lab; Open Solutions Group, Inc; Synergy Strike Force; Unthinkingly.com; and the National Defense University.

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CP Roberts: RELIEF 10-01 Web Site and Twitter

Posted Wed, 11/11/2009 - 18:42 by jcrowley

The RELIEF experiments at CP Roberts is posting to http://relief1001.org and is using the twitter hashtag #camproberts. Please follow our work on building a common operating picture between civilian and military organizations.

CP Roberts: RELIEF 10-01 Experiments Next Week

Posted Fri, 11/06/2009 - 17:42 by jcrowley

From 10-14 November, STAR-TIDES will be hosting experiments at the Naval Postgraduate School's testing facility in the Central Coast of California. Our work will focus on several problems in humanitarian assistance, disaster response (HADR) and stability operations:

  1. Building a new basemap of the affected area quickly and at high resolution
  2. Creating an open-source infrastructure for sharing georeferenced information and data feeds with everyone in theatre.
  3. Integrating data submitted from mobile devices and distributing data back to the users of those devices.
  4. Creating tools that simplify information sharing between civilian and military organizations.

Partners to this work include:

STAR-TIDES Fall Demo in DC

Posted Wed, 10/28/2009 - 13:28 by marekflinch

I haven’t written lately about what’s been happening with STAR-TIDES, but it’s been a time of exceptional activity. We’ve had demonstrations at conferences and exercises in the US, Central America and Europe, supported real world contingencies ranging from the Canadian Arctic to Myanmar, completed six months of exposure testing for some types of shelters and increased emphasis on analyses of different infrastructures, communications equipment and “sense-making” approaches. Most importantly, the STAR-TIDES network now has grown to over 400 members.

Camp Roberts August 2009 After Action Report

Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 17:14 by jcrowley

TIDES has released the full after-action report (AAR) from the recent experiments at Camp Roberts, which included the Afghan election monitoring system based on the fusion of NGA imagery, SMS frameworks, and several open mapping tools. Please see the attachment for the full report.

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