Incident Command Futurism

ABSTRACT The availability of integrated remote sensing platforms and digital data collection sharing tools is changing spill response. These facilitate a more effective rapid decision-making process that can increase resource protection, improve responder safety, reduce response costs. Early detection are key to preventing smaller incidents from becoming larger. A variety innovative now exist or in development could assist facilities responders the early stages throughout an incident event human, environmental, economic impacts. Real time field for parameters such as oil thickness trajectory, SCAT data, oiled wildlife details, resources at risk identification, allows robust be shared rapidly operation. This information facilitates effectively targeted deployment re-deployment human mechanical assets, immediate assessment both environmental impacts cleanup progress. Auto-population command system forms well better document retention through cloud-based file saving administrative functional aspects response, contributing enhanced efficiency. ability identify respond circumstances provides Unified Command with new make decisions keep public informed paper considers emerging technologies they may applied work unified setting, how allow us compress operational period action, accurately understand share status, we able enhance safety recognize cost savings. We also consider some inherent risks associated reliance on will offer suggestions drills exercises test optimize these tools.