Hi all, I don't write very frequently, so as a bit of background I'm a U.S. Army officer. Currently I head intelligence and geospatial support for a theater engineer brigade. One of the focal points not only of my unit, but higher headquarters is disaster relief. I found out about this mailing list during the Nepal earthquakes, and it's definitely been very insightful.
What's become clear to me is for a variety of reasons, our current geospatial equipment is not a good fit for these types of tasks. Since I come from a tech background, I'm interested in coming up with a solution to this. The specific scenario I'm contemplating is the equipment necessary to deploy a team of 8 GIS analysts to read out imagery, create maps and other products, and host them on a server accessible to recovery teams and other parties, both U.S. government, partners, and NGOs. The permissions piece is a separate and complicated process, but I was wondering if based on specific experiences anyone can share lessons learned and recommend either software or hardware to accomplish this (preferably stuff with real world HA/DR usage). The U.S. Army trains geospatial analysts in ArcGIS, so I think at least on the client end I'd be looking at Windows, ArcGIS, and ? to read out imagery to HOT? On the server end it seems like there's more flexibility. Thanks in advance for your input. Hopefully if I can see this project to completion it could mean closer interaction with your efforts in the future. Respectfully, Dion A. Houston Sr.
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