Crisis Decision-making with M&S Support in Complex Urban Environments
(Room S320B)
28 Nov 18
9:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Natural disasters, complex emergencies, mass migration, armed conflicts, terrorism, cyber and hybrid threats can have a drastic impact on population and critical infrastructures in complex environments like large cities. To make decisions under stress when every course of action has its drawbacks, e.g. in crisis or disasters, is a very demanding task involving many challenges: uncertainties, shortage/overload of data, updated situational awareness, information exchange, knowledge management, civil-military and interagency coordination.
To address these issues the NATO M&S COE in collaboration with the NATO MSG-147 group has proposed the Interactive Model for Operations in Metropolitan Areas (IMOMA) developed while taking into consideration three different aspects: -An innovative approach by exploiting interoperable models, databases and simulations enabling iterative planning. -A technical framework that formalizes how to combine disaster physical models (e.g. toxic gas, earthquake, flooding, etc.) with urban geographic models and emergency procedures. -An urban Decision Support System providing the updated situational awareness to enable good decision-making in emergency and in operational and logistics planning.
With these considerations, the IMOMA model tested during the MSG-147 M&S-based interoperable architecture experimentation provides an environment and a city decision support tool for: estimating the preparedness level; evaluating mission concepts; analyzing damages, population impacts, and decisions; and simulating deployment and logistics by interacting with chosen tactical actions. Additionally, information provided by governmental agencies can be supplemented in near real-time by sensors’ data, web-scraped data, and voluntary geographic information, citizens’ damage reports, and tweets.
In conclusion, the IMOMA demonstrated a high level of interoperability among the proposed systems. In particular were tested the reuse of a geographic information system