WES Operations Center - WES
Your Mission. Your Common Operating Picture
One hub to monitor, coordinate, and manage critical operations
This centralized hub contains a number of modules that enables the integration of various types of geospatial information and content in order to support decision making and provide situational awareness.
The WES OPS has been designed and implemented to enable:
- Situational Awareness - Provides a visual, map-based overview of operations, such as tracking personnel or assets during emergencies.
- Data Integration - Merges multiple data sources (e.g., weather, traffic, IoT sensors) into a single, actionable, and mapped visual display.
- Analysis and Visualization - Uses GIS to analyze spatial information to support functions such as flood mapping and display results, helping users understand complex spatial relationships.
- Mission Support: Facilitates mission planning, data processing, and secure communication, often used in defense or security contexts.
The WES OPS is commonly used to support:
- Emergency Management - Coordinating emergency response teams during natural disasters and other events.
- Defense & Intelligence - Providing actionable intelligence for national security.
- Security & Surveillance - Managing large-scale security operations.
- Infrastructure Management - Monitoring assets and optimizing logistics.
Designed and implemented to enable:
Situational Awareness
Provides a visual, map-based overview of operations, such as tracking personnel or assets during emergencies.
Data Integration
Merges multiple data sources (e.g., weather, traffic, IoT sensors) into a single, actionable, and mapped visual display.
Analysis and Visualization
Uses GIS to analyze spatial information to support functions such as flood mapping and display results, helping users understand complex spatial relationships.
Mission Support
Facilitates mission planning, data processing, and secure communication, often used in defense or security contexts.
Commonly used to support:
Emergency Management
Coordinating emergency response teams during natural disasters and other events.
Defense & Intelligence
Providing actionable intelligence for national security.
Security & Surveillance
Managing large-scale security operations.
Infrastructure Management
Monitoring assets and optimizing logistics.
Components:
Provides a unique system that facilitates the capture and utilization of an agency’s and/or organization’s unique emergency response plans
Contains an implementation of the standardized ICS utilized within many emergency management organizations to enable effective, efficient incident management. It also provides an agency/organization with the ability to incorporate unique functions and data capture in completing domain awareness and emergency response.
A web portal environment integrated with open-source portal environments
Often customers require a portal environment to facilitate providing information to their users that go beyond managing more than just the geospatial management. This component contains the interfaces that enable WES to be connected to an overall website management system. Users can choose from one of the following open-source portal environments to be included with WES.
A web mapping application that spatially fuses information, makes maps, discovers information and content
Provides a Common Operational Picture and visualization platform from disparate data sources and applications for situational awareness. Content maybe viewed in 2D or 3D.
Provides access to an array of IoT sensor obserations.
An OGC-compliant data acquisition system that provides rapid integration of information from diverse sources, such as cameras and IoT sensors and devices. It is of particular value for first responders tasking sensors, creating alerts and creating task chains.
A mobile application, available for Android and iOS platforms
Uses OGC standards to provide first responders, surveyors and in-field data collectors with the ability to collect, consume and share information in connected or disconnected environments.
A light weight simplified version of WES Mobile
A simple interface to log and report on observations from the public or from users in the field. A highly configurable and simple to use app is also provided for iOS, Android and Windows platforms that feeds information and content directly into the system.
WES Incident Command System (WES ICS)
Provides a unique system that facilitates the capture and utilization of an agency’s and/or organization’s unique emergency response plans.
Contains an implementation of the standardized ICS utilized within many emergency management organizations to enable effective, efficient incident management. It also provides an agency/organization with the ability to incorporate unique functions and data capture in completing domain awareness and emergency response.
WES Mobile
An iOS, Android and Windows-based mobile application that to provide first responders, surveyors, and in-field data collectors with the ability to collect, consume, and share information in connected or disconnected environments.
WES Public Observations
A simple interface to log and report on observations from the public or from users in the field. A highly configurable and simple to use app is also provided for iOS, Android and Windows platforms that feeds information and content directly into the system.
WES Portal
A web portal environment integrated with open-source portal environments
Often customers require a portal environment to facilitate providing information to their users that go beyond managing more than just the geospatial management. This component contains the interfaces that enable WES to be connected to an overall website management system. Users can choose from one of the following open-source portal environments to be included with WES.
WordPress
Most popular website development and content management portal providing features such traditional websites, mailing lists, Internet forums, media galleries, membership sites, learning management systems, online stores, etc.
Drupal
Another widely used open-source portal environment that provides the ability associated with build more complex, secure, and scalable websites.
Office 365/SharePoint/Azure
In cases where a customer requires integration with Microsoft Teams video conferencing, SharePoint integration etc.
Liferay
An open-source software solution like WordPress and Drupal that boasts a communication platform for the user audiences.
WES Situational Awareness
A web mapping application that spatially fuses information, makes maps, discovers information and content
Provides a Common Operational Picture and visualization platform from disparate data sources and applications for situational awareness. Content maybe viewed in 2D or 3D.
WES SensorHub
This subsystem uses open standards to easily connect various sensors and devices, such as cameras, body worn sensors (ECG, EKG, EMG, etc.) and platforms such as weather stations and drone imagery, to a networked environment to enhance situational awareness and the overall decision-making process. This component has also been utilized for real-time data collects to our UxS related projects and activities.
WES Geospatial
The data warehouse component of WES that acts as a library for the storage of geospatial/non-geospatial imagery, data and data products. This sub-system is being used by some of the largest image archives in the world and supports the "big data" concepts. Provides a metadata capability that maintains transactions such as users, orders, and data/metadata ingestion.
Meta Manager
Provides metadata management for both structured and unstructured data. It supports revealing metadata contained within relational database management systems by mapping metadata attributes to a metadata standard. For unstructured data, Meta Manager will crawl directory systems, detect files (all files supported), and automatically extract the metadata for search and discovery. The ability to manually enter metadata that is consistent across all collections is also provided.
WES Catalog
A sophisticated and easy to use publishing, search and browsing interface that provides organizations with the ability to manage and maximize usages of their Web services that are available throughout the enterprise.
WES Components
The tools and applications have been organized into the following components that are provided to organizations utilizing the capabilities:
WES Operations Center
Centralized operations hub delivering real-time situational awareness for coordinated response and decision-making.
WES Geospatial
Enterprise data warehouse for storing, managing, and delivering geospatial, imagery, and business data at scale.
WES Analytics
Transforms historical data into dashboards, charts, and reports for clear insights and informed decisions.
WES AI
AI-powered analytics, modeling, and visualization for predictive insights, planning, and decision support.
WES Administration
Comprehensive administration tools for configuration, security, user management, auditing, and control.
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