ASA Improves Predictive Information Computer Models

The growing homeland security field is sparking demand for sophisticated geographic information system (GIS) technology that facilitates quick and easy assessment of environmental and security risks. As a result, Applied Science Associates (ASA) is developing extensions to ESRI's ArcGIS that will add marine models to sophisticated GIS data applications. These extensions will allow ESRI GIS users to activate complex numerical models and evaluate solutions based on existing GIS databases. ASA is also developing military extensions for the C/JMTK (Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit) framework.

State agencies with responsibility for environmentally sensitive areas can use the improved models to predict potential oil-spill impacts to land and water and evaluate air-related health impacts to populated areas and other high-priority sites. ASA products include the Atmospheric Dispersion Model; Chemical Dispersion Model; Crisis Management System; Real-Time Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Modeling System; Oil Spill Model for Marine and Freshwater; Deep Water Oil Spill Model; Oil and Chemical Spill Model for Land; and Search and Rescue Model.