Public Health Distributed Geospatial Intelligence Network (PH-DGInet) Pilot II

The Public Health Distributed Geospatial Intelligence Network (PH-DGInet) is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for sharing geospatial tools, models, and data modeled after a defense/intel network called DGInet that has been running for almost 10 years and has 30 nodes globally.  PH-DGInet will allow local, state, federal, and international health agencies to share geospatial investments to enhance programmatic analysis, visualization, and reporting requirements but at the same time reduce development time, maintenance, and costs.  This presentation will provide an introduction to PH-DGInet and how it works.  In addition, a demonstration will be provided illustrating how multiple state health departments, CDC, and WHO can share geospatial data using PH-DGInet or how PH-DGInet can consume services from them without them being a node.  This approach will illustrate how PH-DGInet can leverage different services from ESRI web services, open source services, and Geo-RSS feeds to do analysis and visualization using data from multiple locations across the globe.