Black Coral LIVE

Black Coral LIVE™ is a desktop software application that allows tactical teams to communicate in real-time on top of a digital map. Users of Black Coral LIVE™ are able to create location specific mark ups such as labels, notes, HSWG (Homeland Security Working Group) symbols, military 2525B symbols, arrows and polygons with a click of a mouse, and immediately share them among team members to communicate information. Users can also apply Black Coral LIVE™'s chat tool, create a secure shared workspace that relates to specific geographic 'Areas Of Interests', categorize information, and track team members via GPS and other sensor oriented capabilities.

Black Coral LIVE™ is designed to support multiple teams working simultaneously. This capability provides an advantage over thin client architectures where all geospatial information and its representation (e.g., all map layers) can only be seen in one way by everyone. The ability to share annotated layers provides decentralized data editing and real-time communications in context among team members. Even novice users can quickly add markups and annotations to maps with Black Coral LIVE™, and share these markups and annotations with their team.

Black Coral LIVE™ allows you to view general information on all incidents or drill down to specific locations or text data sets associated with a specific incident. Black Coral LIVE™ can also be integrated with existing incident management systems and/or command and control systems, allowing sharing of incident information without requiring double-entry.

New location-based services are becoming available everyday, and Black Coral LIVE™ consumes location-based services as data sources. Black Coral LIVE™ allows sharing of team member positions if the team members are equipped with GPS devices, or it can link to location services that consolidate the team positions. The flexibility of this solution is unmatched in other applications.

Black Coral LIVE™ is designed to use the GIS capabilities of the ESRI ArcGIS Engine and the collaboration and storage aspects of Microsoft Groove to produce an integrated communication, collaboration and coordination solution for emergency response and military operations.

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Key Capabilities

• Annotations and markups
• Data sharing and synchronization
• Chat
• Data acquisition
• Geospatial collaboration
• Asset tracking: blue force tracking, location-based services

• Decentralized data editing
• Fusion of geospatial data
• Neutral and trusted workspace
• Sensor integration
• Reporting
• Web-based services