Extend your ArcGIS Enterprise infrastructure with ArcGIS Mission from Esri. This all-inclusive, mission managed software solution tool, was built for geospatial communications and tactical situational awareness. Mission allows teams to create, share, monitor maps, and other materials for situational awareness and operational use. As situations evolve, gain real-time updates from the field, quickly make changes, and update team members, with this unique peer-to-peer mobile communication tool. All key data obtained, such as messages, photos, and location tracks, are documented and stored here for later review and playback purposes. Allowing for a better understanding of your most recent mission, and/or acquiring a better understanding from completed missions. This application is available for ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8 and later.
ArcGIS Mission team members can track, monitor, and coordinate movement with location sharing and peer-to-peer communication, even in disconnected environments. With the ability to communicate directly in the web and mobile apps and share locations via geomessages to pinpoint an exact area of interest.
With ArcGIS Mission, all team members share a common operating picture, ensuring everyone is on the same page at all times. In tactical and emergency situations, a common awareness is vital to mission success. This single platform can effectively create, manage, monitor and analyze mission data within your organization. Completed missions can be reviewed and analyzed in order to learn from past actions and improve future mission strategies.
How it works
Plan – Create your mission, determine the location of focus, choose your teams, and share all relevant documents to the whole team.
Execute – Track, monitor and coordinate mission actions through effective location sharing and peer-to-peer communication on the fly.
Review – Review missions with your team to understand patterns, improve performance, and plan future missions.
ArcGIS Mission Components
ArcGIS Mission comes with three main components: ArcGIS Mission Manager, ArcGIS Mission Responder, and ArcGIS Mission Server.
ArcGIS Mission Manager
This web application allows for users to create and interact within each mission. Examples include mission maps, organization of a mission, providing materials such as photos or documents, and overseeing responder activity. Once a mission is active, the Mission Manager user has the ability to relay information between teams, and update/correct their map as necessary. Providing this information supports materials for both Manager and Responder users. Create a new mission today with ArcGIS Mission Manager tool.
ArcGIS Mission Responder
This mobile application was built for users in the field to participate in active missions, relying on the Manager to create and activate these missions. Unlike Manager, Responder was designed for participation, not creation. Making it unavailable for users to build or edit any mission. ArcGIS Mission Responder cannot function without both Mission Manager and Mission Server. For better understanding on how to use these apps, Esri recommends that you read up on these documentation to better explain its features and functionalities.
ArcGIS Mission Server
The ArcGIS Mission Server was specifically designed to support rapid, seamless, effective, and secure communication between users. Mission Server uses security protocols, including WebSocket Security (WSS) connections, to consistently maintain a secure line of communication between the team. Unlike other ArcGIS Servers, Mission Server does contain a data store of its own, but instead uses existing services provided by ArcGIS Data Store. By not having a Data Store of its own, the Server calls for minimal administration and maintenance during and after installation.
ArcGIS Mission Use Cases
Let’s walk through a few use cases for ArcGIS Mission technology. Whether coordinating during emergency situations, or systematically clearing an area, ArcGIS Mission has the tools for the job.
ArcGIS Mission Use Case: Ski Patrol
A fun ski day can quickly turn into a serious situation if someone was to be stranded on the mountain overnight. With hundreds (or thousands) of guests skiing on the mountain any given day, it’s essential for ski patrol to check every single run at the end of the day. With ArcGIS Mission, the entire ski patrol crew can coordinate in real time to systematically clear the mountain of guests, making sure no one gets left behind.
By integrating the ArcGIS platform into their strategy, ski patrollers can have designated zones to clear at the end of the day. As each zone gets cleared, patrollers can report back to the office in real time to announce a cleared zone (green), or to request backup to help with an injured guest (red). Real time peer-to-peer communication with ArcGIS Mission can help maintain mountain safety for ski resorts.
ArcGIS Mission Use Case: Search and Rescue
This use case for ArcGIS Mission portrays a search and rescue effort. By creating a zone feature layer, ArcGIS Mission Responders can each be assigned to a specific zone for their search and rescue efforts to find their missing person.
When hikers go missing, search and rescue efforts may be the only hope they have left. With GIS technology like ArcGIS Mission, search and rescue teams can coordinate and communicate in real time to announce their current location and findings. As field crew tracks are recorded in real time, ArcGIS Mission Managers can clearly see which areas have been swept, and which areas still need to be thoroughly searched.
As field crews move through and clear zones, the common map shared between the entire team can be updated in real time to reflect cleared zones (green). Systematically clearing zones gives everyone a common operating picture, allowing field crews to converge on the final search areas until ultimately finding their missing hiker in Zone C.
ArcGIS Mission is a powerful GIS technology for tactical awareness and mission management in the field. As these use case scenarios have outlined, ArcGIS Mission can be applied to a variety of mission types, to ensure fully transparent communication during critical emergency situations.
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Ready to take advantage of the power of ArcGIS Mission? It all starts with ArcGIS Enterprise. Get the ball rolling quickly with an ArcGIS Enterprise Jumpstart from GeoMarvel. We’ll get you all set up and ready to start leveraging advanced coordination technology like ArcGIS Mission. Reach out to start a conversation with our industry experts today.
