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PAIRS, The GIS-Based Incident Response System for Pennsylvania, and NASAOver the past several years the Pennsylvania Departments of Environmental Protection (DEP), Health (DOH), and Agriculture (PDA) built the GIs-based Pennsylvania West Nile Surveillance System. That system has become a model for collecting data that has a field component, laboratory component, reporting and mapping component, and a public information component. Given the success of the West Nile Virus System and the events of September 11, 2001, DEP then embarked on the development of the Pennsylvania Incident Response System, or PAIRS. PAIRS is an effective GIs-based approach to providing a system for response to incidents of any kind, including terrorism because it is building upon the existing experience, infrastructure and databases that were successfully developed to respond to the West Nile Virus by DEP, DOH, and PDA. The proposed system can be described as one that supports data acquisition, laboratory forensics, decision making/response, and communications. Decision makers will have tools to view and analyze data from various sources and, at the same time, to communicate with the large numbers of people responding to the same incident. Recent collaborations with NASA partners are creating mechanisms for the PAIRS system to incorporate space-based and other remote sensing geophysical parameters relevant to public health assessment and management, such as surface temperatures, precipitation, land cover/land use change, and humidity. This presentation will describe the PAIRS system and outline the Pennsylvania-NASA collaboration for integration of space-based data into the PAIRS system.
Document ID
20040012979
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Conrad, Eric
(Environmental Protection Agency Harrisburg, PA, United States)
Arbegast, Daniel
(Environmental Protection Agency Harrisburg, PA, United States)
Maynard, Nancy
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Vicente, Gilberto
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2003
Subject Category
Geophysics
Meeting Information
Meeting: Pennsylvania Geographic Information Systems Conference: Environmental and Public Health
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Country: United States
Start Date: June 24, 2003
End Date: June 25, 2003
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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