Mobile GIS and USAF Safety BirdWildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard Analysis

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Mobile GIS and USAF SafetyBird/Wildlife Aircraft
Strike Hazard Analysis

• Ryan C. Miller, PhD
• Onsite Support
• Geo Integration Office
• HQ USAF Safety Center
• ryan.miller_at_kirtland.af.mil
• NMGIC Spring Meeting - April 29, 2005

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Agenda

• USAF Safety Center
• USAF Enterprise GIS GeoBase
• Bird Aircraft Strike Problem
• USAF Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard Program
• Mobile GIS
• Business Process
• Users
• Technology
• Integration Process
• Conclusion

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USAF Safety Center

• US Air Force Safety Center
• Promotes safety across the AF by developing,
  implementing, and evaluating AF activities
• Organized around the weapons, flight, personnel,
  and space domains
• Common activities Explosive siting, mishap
  investigations, mishap data management, education
  and training, and BASH

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USAF Enterprise GIS

• GeoBase One installation One map
• Shared mapping resource across the AF
• Standards-based
• CADD/GIS Center Spatial Data Structure for
  Facilities Infrastructure and the Environment
  (SDSFIE)
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Metadata
• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

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USAF Enterprise GIS

• GeoBase Infrastructure
• Three focuses Garrison, Expeditionary, and
  Strategic
• Geo Integration Offices staffed with POCs for GIS
  data at all levels - Installation, Major Command,
  Headquarters AF
• Functional communities (i.e. Safety, Security
  Forces, etc) identify and communicate mapping
  requirements
• Council provides installation mapping and
  visualization guidance for the USAF

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Bird Aircraft Strike Hazards

• During the past 20 years, more than 58,000
  wildlife strikes have killed 32 aviators,
  destroyed 25 aircraft, and damaged 700 million
  worth of equipment.

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Bird Aircraft Strike Program

• Bird\wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH)
• Goal is to reduce the risk of strikes
• Activities
• Bird avoidance modeling
• Advanced wildlife monitoring technology
• On-site investigations
• Airfield surveys and hazard identification
• Make management recommendation
• i.e. keep grass lt 1
• Communicate recommendations to the field

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BASH Planning Process

• Previous site visit characteristics
• Hard copy field data capture
• Text based deliverable
• Little use of geospatial technologies

Travel to location of interest
AFSC BASH Team receives site visit request
Visit site for 3-5 days
Provide mgmt recommendations for airfield managers
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BASH Planning Process

• Current site visit characteristics
• Hard copy and digital field data capture
• Text and map based deliverable
• GIS used throughout the process

Desktop GIS
Mobile GIS
Desktop GIS
Travel to location of interest
AFSC BASH Team receives site visit request
Visit site for 3-5 days
Provide mgmt recommendations for airfield managers
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Mobile GIS

• Users
• BASH scientists
• Trained as wildlife biologists
• Little GIS experience
• GIS Training
• Individual sessions based on need and task
• Access to ESRI Virtual Campus
• Ongoing

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Mobile GIS

• Technology
• Hardware
• Gateway M275 TabletPC
• 1.75 GHz Pentium M Processor
• 1 GB RAM
• Software
• Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005
• ArcGIS ArcEditor 9.0
• Total initial investment approx 6K (GSA prices)

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Mobile GIS

• Leverage digital ink technology
• Simplified user interfaces
• Capability
• Form-based data capture
• Add recommendations
• Communicate hazards and solutions
• Link digital photographs to geographic features
• Use a spiral approach for adding functionality

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Mobile GIS

• Spiral Process Overview
• Spiral 1 Application introduction
• Spiral 2 Addition of forms photos
• Spiral 3 Annotation storage
• Spiral 4 Metadata
• Spiral 5

GIS/GeoBase Education
Current Spiral
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Mobile GIS

• Spiral 1 Application Introduction
• Streamlined users interface
• Unstructured data capture
• Data represented as graphics
• Annotations stored in project files
• Post processed data

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• Spiral 2 Addition of Forms
• Streamlined UI ? Added BASH Toolbar
• Combine structured and unstructured data capture
• Data represented as geometries
• GeoBase standards are transparent to the user
• Reduced time for post processing data
• Link digital photos to geometries

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Conclusions

• Lessons learned
• Leveraging TabletPC capabilities in ArcGIS is
  fairly straight forward
• Imagery tradeoff Better is not always better
• Keep application and process as simple as
  possible
• Mobile GIS has improved capturing bird/wildlife
  hazards and communicating the hazards to the
  field
• BASH users enjoy using the technology

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Mobile GIS and USAF SafetyBird/Wildlife Aircraft
Strike Hazard Analysis

• Ryan C. Miller, PhD
• Onsite Support
• Geo Integration Office
• HQ USAF Safety Center
• ryan.miller_at_kirtland.af.mil
• NMGIC Spring Meeting - April 29, 2005