How can geospatial technologies support a Common Operational Picture (COP) for state and local incident response?
Luckily, geospatial technologies provide a common visual language across all disciplines. They enable responders to react to and, more importantly, add to the Common Operational Picture (COP). The COP provides sharable and actionable intelligence based on real-time or near real-time information. Decision-makers at all levels can use the COP to make more useful and timely decisions, which can save time, money and lives. Read more. The military was an early adapter of geospatial technologies. What best practices might be adapted by state and local governments to improve incident response? State and local responders can benefit from the military’s success in geospatial data sharing. U.S. military personnel frequently provide commercial geospatial imagery to their allied military partners as part of joint operations. Sharing commercial imagery improves the Common Operational Picture and builds trust among everyone in theater, while removing concerns about sharing sensitive national securit
