Title

Plowshares: An Emergency Management Training Simulation

Keywords

Emergency management; Janus; Plowshares; TERRA

Abstract

The Plowshares project is applying military constructive simulation technology to training for emergency management. The U. S. Army's Janus combat simulation model was enhanced to support emergency management scenarios that include hurricanes, fires, and chemical spills. The enhanced Janus software, known as TERRA, has been used in a county Emergency Operations Center to provide the stimulus for training events structured as command post exercises. The first phase of the project culminated in a demon stration exercise using the TERRA system at the Orange County Florida Emergency Operations Center. In that demonstration Emergency Operations Center and response agency personnel responded to a hurricane and its subsequent tornadoes, fires, and rubble. This paper describes the overall Plowshares project, the hurricane, tornado, and fire models used in TERRA, and the methods for using TERRA to train emergency managers. © 1996, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-1996

Publication Title

Simulation

Volume

66

Issue

6

Number of Pages

357-373

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/003754979606600604

Socpus ID

2742605846 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/2742605846

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