Impact Planning Aids for Major Storms (IPAMS): A Homeland Defense Weather Disaster Decision Aid
Abstract
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has developed a "red-amber-green" mission planning aid for Army commanders to advise them when and where the environmental conditions currently exceed (or are forecast to exceed) levels of "marginal" or "severe" impact to their systems, operations, or personnel. This Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid (IWEDA) is successfully deployed today with U.S. Army combat weather teams around the world for Command and Control (C2) Battle Command and Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) mission planning applications. IWEDA will be extended to enable key government decision makers and planners to more directly and automatically anticipate and understand the critical impacts and deleterious effects caused by major storms, severe/adverse weather, and hurricanes that affect resources, infrastructure, transportation, property, safety, and lives. This extension will produce a "Impact Planning Aids for Major Storms" (IPAMS), resulting in a national concept of "America... Staying Ahead of the Storm."
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA497506
Entities
People
- Richard C> Shirkey
- Richard J. Szymber
Organizations
- United States Army Research Laboratory