EMADVANTAGE provides the capability to develop, manage, and quickly access information about the facilities, resources, and personnel needed to support an EOC's emergency management activities. This allows emergency managers to identify those agencies, departments, and personnel that are involved in emergency management at the EOC as well as in the local community. It also allows the emergency managers to track facilities and resources of specific interest to the EOC. The information management components of EMADVANTAGE include but are not limited to:

• Agencies and departments involved in emergency management
• Personnel that are responsible for manning the EOC and/or responding to a specific hazard
• Personnel residing outside of the EOC that provide assistance to the general public during an emergency such as fire, police, and doctors
• People in the community that provide resources
• Facilities that may be effected by the hazard
• Facilities for which special protective actions are needed, such as hospitals or schools
• Facilities that are involved in providing resources and/or are involved in providing shelter to the community
• Traffic Control Points to support emergency responders
• Sirens to support public alert and notification
• Meteorological towers to provide real time weather information

A key component of the EMADVANTAGE architecture is to allow a user to quickly access needed information about a facility, traffic control point, siren, or other element of emergency management. This includes the access and display of information directly from the geographic information system (GIS). Figure 7 is an example of a user getting information about a facility that is affected by a chemical plume.

Figure 7. Information Management