CAP IN AUSTRALIA Presentation to the WMO CAP

CAP IN AUSTRALIA Presentation to the WMO CAP Implementation Workshop 7 April 2011 Greg Trott Project Manager CAP-AP

Scope of this Presentation: • • Australia’s hazard environment CAP use in Australia CAP-AP: a standards approach Issues to resolve

• Australia’s hazard environment • CAP use in Australia • CAP-AP: a standards approach • Issues to resolve

Lat: 12. 5 S Long: 153 E 28 50 km 44 0 0 k m Long: 116 E 3600 km 18 00 km 2700 km 7. 7 mil sq km Lat: 43 S

How widespread is Australia? Population In 2010 was 22. 59 Million

Double Less than Average Triple

National Systems Approach to Community Warnings • To improve effectiveness of community advice and warnings • To contribute to community safety outcomes • Elements: – Preparing the community – Situational awareness – Message construction and dissemination – Appropriate action taken • All-hazards framework but focused on bushfires

Commonwealth Government • Support to the states and territories in developing capacity to deal with all-hazards • National coordination functions • Assistance when requested • Cost sharing arrangements for response and recovery expenditure

Any questions up to this point? • Australia’s hazard environment • CAP use in Australia • CAP-AP: a standards approach • Issues to resolve

CAP use in Australia • Catalyst: Royal Commission investigating bushfires in State of Victoria in February 2009. • Focus: enhancing the protection of human lives • Where: all states and territories use an alerting system that includes a CAP component • How: through various State-based Emergency Service organisations, including: – Fire, Rescue, Police, Health, Transport, Infrastructure

Intended method of operation • Information Officer generates a CAP message using approved templates • Message triggered through a single portal, which promotes consistency of content • Message appears concurrently on networked sites & sent to: – media broadcasters (to trigger use of SEWS); – Mobile telephones and other mobile devices; – RSS feeds

Attorney-General’s Department • Provides expert support to Government to maintain and improve Australia's system of: – law and justice – national security – emergency management. • AGD seeks to achieve three outcomes: – 1 - equitable / accessible system of federal civil justice. – 2 - Coordinated federal security and emergency management activity, for a safer Australia. – 3 - Assisting regions to manage their futures.

National Approach Collective efforts based on partnerships of the: • Commonwealth • States (6) • Territories (2) • local and regional governments • non-government organisations • industry • the community

Emergency Management Australia (EMA) • Commonwealth Agency responsible for coordinating the Australian Government response to emergency management. • Facilitates coordination through collaborative relationships with other Australian Government agencies: e. g. – Bureau of Meteorology (for Weather alerts) – Geoscience Australia (for earthquake / tsunami alerts) • Manages capability development programs

All-Hazards focus • All-hazards focus to any emergency – Prevent – Prepare for – Respond to – Recover from PPRR

Bureau of Meteorology: CAP Implementation • BOM warning products that will benefit from CAP: – Weather warnings • • • Tropical cyclone Coastal storm surge Severe thunderstorm and hail Marine winds Land winds Flash floods Fire weather Agricultural threats (like frost) etc – Riverine flood warnings* – Tsunami warnings#

Bureau of Meteorology: Timing of CAP Implementation • Nationwide implementation of the new Nex. Gen* weather forecast and warning preparation and dissemination system – Avoids need for costly adjustments to legacy systems • Finalisation of the CAP-AP standard. – BOM systems will aim to match CAP-AP standard – Saves need to conduct additional reviews of the software * System based on the US National Weather Service Graphical Forecast Editor

Bureau of Meteorology: CAP Implementation Likely timeline - CAP implementation in BOM: • Early 2012 – CAP-AP standard is defined/published (First Release)* • Late 2012 – CAP trial initiated for limited area (probably one state) • Late 2014 – CAP implemented for all warning products * This is outside the Bureau’s direct scope of responsibility

Where is CAP used in Australia? CAP Feed from July 2011 http: //www. ga. gov. au/earthquakes/

• Telephone warning system • Sends alerts to communities via: – landline telephones based on handset location – mobile phones based on registered service address http: //www. emergencyalert. gov. au/ © 2010, Commonwealth of Australia

Future Project Location based alerting capability • Federal Government funding • Capability to send warnings to mobile phones – based on the location of the handset • Separate negotiations required with each of the mobile carriers.

SEWS • A signal tone accompanied by: – spoken words Emergency, Emergency – that is sent via: • landline message • media broadcast (radio, TV etc) • SMS text message inlcudes word Emergency © 2010, Commonwealth of Australia

Alerting from Community-to-Government © 2010, Commonwealth of Australia

Any questions? • Australia’s hazard environment • CAP use in Australia • CAP-AP: a standards approach • Issues to resolve

Standards-based Approach • National Forums promote adoption of CAP • No common CAP standard in Australia • CAP-AP to be developed using a standardsbased approach: – Consensus approach that establishes common language and broadest acceptance by Users – Consultation with committees of technical experts and groups of interested stakeholders – Provides quality, trust and assurance to Users

Standards-based Approach (2) • Standards development pathways considered: – Commercial standards development organisations – Government’s National Standards Framework • NSF pathway selected due to: – Governance through Cross Jurisdictional CIO’s – Public consultation process was optional – No copyright issues imposed – No distribution restrictions imposed – Schedule and cost risks were lower

8 -Step NSF Process 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Project Proposal Project Authorisation Requirements Definition First Draft Review Compliance Review Implementation Verification Endorsement

• Australia’s hazard environment • CAP use in Australia • CAP-AP: a standards approach • Issues to resolve – Hazard Event Code interoperability matri. X (HECX) – HECX versus OID – HECX versus TSO

Australian Event Codes • AUSevent. REF list being developed to reflect hazard event names that are more recognisable to the Australian community • Intend to develop a Hazard Event Code interoperability matri. X (HECX)

Issue to resolve: HECX Challenge: How to assure correct interpretation of event codes from other countries Issue: Interoperability of event codes Intentions: – Consult with regional neighbours – Establish HECX between respective event code lists – Maintain regular update cycle (mutually agreed) – Provide the HECX information to CAP-AP Users

Issue to resolve: HECX v OID Challenge: Develop a methodology to map the CAP-AP HECX to an international event code list Issue: How could OID support HECX ? Australian HECX code North American event code Bushfire Wildfire / Forest Fire Tropical Cyclone Hurricane Sheep Grazier Warning ? Plant Pest ? Total Fire Ban ? Animal Plague ? Riverine Flood Overland Flow Flood Triple Zero 911 Service

Can see that CAP exists in OID scheme but… do not yet understand how the CAP-AP event codes can be mapped into the OID

Issue to resolve: HECX v TSO Challenge: Determine how the CAP-AP HECX can interoperate with the Tactical Situation Object (TSO) Issue: How can TSO support CAP-AP? Assessments to date: • Reviewed the 2006 document “Definition of the OASIS Tactical Situation Object” produced by the Open Advanced System for d. ISaster and emergency management (OASIS) • TSO Events are proposed to be mapped with CAP • TSO EVENT_TYPE can be used in the CAP event element

Questions ? AGD Point of Contact: Greg Trott Tel: +61 – 2 – 6141 3904 Gregory. Trott@ag. gov. au