This document provides an overview of the SAMBRO work flow system for managing emergency alerts and common operating pictures (COPs). It describes the key components of SAMBRO including creating CAP templates and messages, authorizing and approving messages, verifying messages in the COP, and creating subscriptions for email/SMS notifications. The goal of SAMBRO is to support preparedness, warning, search and rescue, and relief efforts through multi-agency situational awareness and alert management.
2. Outline
1. SAMBRO Overview
2. Review Configuration
3. Users and Roles
4. Creating CAP Template
5. Creating CAP Messages
6. Authorizing CAP Messages
7. Verifying in Common Operating Picture (COP)
8. Subscriptions
a. Email/SMS
b. RSS/Atom
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5. Users and Roles
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5 Access Permissions permission to Create, Read, Update, Delete, Publish,
Approve, Review the database table.
Users Roles in SAMBRO:
Anonymous Not Registered, Public Users
Authenticated Registered users
Map Admin GIS/MAP Administrator
Alert Editor - Alert Message Editor
Alert Approver Approver + Alert Editor
Admin - System Administrator / CAP Implementer
Permissions are granted to roles.
User gets permissions by assigning roles to them.
6. Roles
1. For creating Users: Administration > New
User (xx.aidiq.
com/eden/admin/user/create)
2. Redirected to the roles tab automatically.
3. Choose the desired roles.
4. Click Add button.
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5. Can assign more than one
roles to the user.
(/eden/admin/user)
6. Notified through Email
7. Changing Passwords
7. Creating CAP Template
1. Importance of CAP Template
URL: sambro.geoinfo.ait.ac.th/sambro/cap/template/create
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10. Authorizing CAP Messages
1. CAP Message Creation Author CAP Message
2. Email/ SMS to the people with the Alert Approver role.
3. Approver Accept /Reject/ Edit Message. (/eden/cap/alert/review)
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11. Verifying in Com-Op-Pic
Left Box - Alert in Internal SAMBRO System
Right Box RSS Feed/ Twitter feed from external source
http://www.emergencyalert.alberta.ca/aeapublic/feed.atom
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/xml/PAAQAtom.xml
http://ptwc.weather.gov/feeds/ptwc_rss_pacific.xml
http://ptwc.weather.gov/feeds/ptwc_rss_hawaii.xml
Middle Map Box Shows the GIS Components of Alerts from Left Box
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12. Verifying in COP
Same View, Different
Contents Public and
Closed User Group
(CUG)
Public only scope =
public alerts
CUG all alerts
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13. Verifying in COP
Filter Alert Options
Priority, Event Type and
Scope
Profile Page for
Individual Alert
Information on all four
(alert, info, area,
resource) segment of
the CAP Message
Alert Area Color
Coded
8/30/2015
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14. Subscriptions
1. Filter : Event Type, Priority, Locations, Language
2. Notify On: New Records, Records Updates
3. Frequency: Daily, Hourly, Immediately, Never, Weekly
4. Notify By: Email (only), SMS (only) or both
5. URL - /eden/default/index/subscriptions
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15. Subscriptions
Filter
Event Type: Flood
Priority: High
Locations: Nepal(country), can
go to other levels too
Language: English
Notify On: New Records, Records
Updates
Frequency: Immediately
Notify By: Both Email and SMS
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