VEI-3D

Large and widespread infrastructures today are mostly monitored from only a few centralized locations. In events of crisis or catastrophe, command and control staff members need a comprehensive and precise overview of a site, its surroundings, and each and every available piece of information. This is especially important if complex situations arise and measures have to be taken on short notice in order to save lifes or to avert further damage. Many important decisions have to be made within the first few minutes after an catastrophic event, including resource planning, selection of access routes, and the evaluation of additional risks and hazards. Otherwise, these vitally important first minutes will be lost and never be made up for.

A virtual model of a location, which is comparable to historic military sandbox games, but enriched with additional visualizations of all visible and invisible surrounding realities (ducts, conduits, roads, population density, and so on), including interaction with the model (e.g. taking measurements), allows command and control to immediately take the right measures in order to efficiently support and prepare all units even before reaching the site of accident or catastrophe.

The system could also be used for planning security-related missions, training, and revisal of tactics.

The virtual site model therefore helps to use the decisive first minutes following an incident in an optimum way in order to take the right measures, to save lives in the best possible ways, and to avert harm from human beings as well as goods, or to at least minimize them.