Improving Information and Communications in a Disaster Scenario with AWS Snowball Edge

Volunteers and emergency personnel carefully coordinate their response to natural disasters. This coordination requires data and making data actionable and accessible at the tactical edge remains a challenge. We'll give a quick overview of the results of our disaster response user needs study and demonstrate a prototype disaster response pipeline for field data management. The serverless, cloud-based pipeline combines public and private data sources with open source software. It can provide the field with a ruggedized remote data center (AWS Snowball Edge), preloaded with critical information, including reach-back capabilities. You'll see how this works and learn ways first responders can update data from in-situ sources such as drones.