Tag: Cross-Agency Situational-Awareness
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SAMBRO Tested and Myanmar is Ready to Go Live
The Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) is now publishing live CAP feeds through their Warning and Situational-Awareness platform. Prior to making the decision to publish live alerts, through the CAP-enabled Sahana Alerting and Messaging Broker (SAMBRO), DMH and associated Stakeholders conducted a series of silent-tests and live-exercises. The silent-tests, carried out over three…
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PAGASA Originating and SAMBRO Relaying CAP Warning Messages in the Philippines
Originate and Relay Alerts Philippines Atmospheric Geophysical and Astrological Service Administration (PAGASA) and the Sahana Alerting and Messaging Broker (SAMBRO) systems’ interoperability was tested during the controlled-exercise in Manila, Philippines (11-14th July 2016). The process was simple – valid Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) messages originating from the PAGASA “public alerting” software tool were received into…
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Myanmar Loving the SAMBRO Mobile APP
We conducted controlled-exercises in the Nyaungdon and Kunyangong Townships in Myanmar. The SAMBRO mobile app was exciting to the participating emergency firs-responders. The number of participants grew from 10 to 25 when they heard of the mobile app and were keen in testing the application. A significant number of the first-responders; especially in Kunyangong, did…
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Geocodes important to Philippines in their Early Warning
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) requires that the targeted alert area is defined. The CAP areaDesc (i.e. the area Description) is a mandatory element. Whereas the polygon element in CAP is optional. However, the use of polygons are becoming quite popular, especially with web-based rendering that uses maps to display the alerting area. The Sahana…