This document provides an overview of the SAMBRO work flow system for managing emergency alerts and common operating pictures (COPs). It describes the key components of SAMBRO including creating CAP templates and messages, authorizing and approving messages, verifying messages in the COP, and creating subscriptions for email/SMS notifications. The goal of SAMBRO is to support preparedness, warning, search and rescue, and relief efforts through multi-agency situational awareness and alert management.

1. SAMBRO Work FlowsCAP-ON-A-MAP
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Biplov Bhandari
Sahana Software Foundation Developer
Research Associate, AIT
biplov@ait.asia, bionicbiplov45@gmail.com

2. Outline
1. SAMBRO Overview
2. Review Configuration
3. Users and Roles
4. Creating CAP Template
5. Creating CAP Messages
6. Authorizing CAP Messages
7. Verifying in Common Operating Picture (COP)
8. Subscriptions
a. Email/SMS
b. RSS/Atom
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3. SAMBRO Overview
1. Preparedness, Warning, SAR, Relief
2. Alerting and Reporting
3. Multi-agency situational Awareness
4. Keeping it simple
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4. Review Configuration
1. Message Identifier (Prefix-OID-DateTime-AID-Suffix)
2. Source (Domain Name@PublicURL)
3. Expire Offset (Expire Date = Effective(now) + Expire Offset)
4. Warning Priorities - CSV or /eden/cap/warning_priority/create
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5. Users and Roles
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5● Access Permissions – permission to Create, Read, Update, Delete, Publish,
Approve, Review the database table.
● Users Roles in SAMBRO:
○ Anonymous – Not Registered, Public Users
○ Authenticated – Registered users
○ Map Admin – GIS/MAP Administrator
○ Alert Editor - Alert Message Editor
○ Alert Approver – Approver + Alert Editor
○ Admin - System Administrator / CAP Implementer
● Permissions are granted to roles.
● User gets permissions by assigning roles to them.

6. Roles
1. For creating Users: Administration > New
User (xx.aidiq.
com/eden/admin/user/create)
2. Redirected to the roles tab automatically.
3. Choose the desired roles.
4. Click Add button.
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5. Can assign more than one
roles to the user.
(/eden/admin/user)
6. Notified through Email
7. Changing Passwords

7. Creating CAP Template
1. Importance of CAP Template
URL: sambro.geoinfo.ait.ac.th/sambro/cap/template/create
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8. Creating CAP Message
1. Actual Alert Message
2. URL: /eden/cap/alert/create
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9. Approving CAP Messages
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10. Authorizing CAP Messages
1. CAP Message Creation → Author CAP Message
2. Email/ SMS to the people with the ‘Alert Approver’ role.
3. Approver → Accept /Reject/ Edit Message. (/eden/cap/alert/review)
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11. Verifying in Com-Op-Pic
● Left Box - Alert in Internal SAMBRO System
● Right Box – RSS Feed/ Twitter feed from external source
○ http://www.emergencyalert.alberta.ca/aeapublic/feed.atom
○ http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/xml/PAAQAtom.xml
○ http://ptwc.weather.gov/feeds/ptwc_rss_pacific.xml
○ http://ptwc.weather.gov/feeds/ptwc_rss_hawaii.xml
● Middle Map Box – Shows the GIS Components of Alerts from Left Box
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12. Verifying in COP
● Same View, Different
Contents – Public and
Closed User Group
(CUG)
● Public – only scope =
public alerts
● CUG – all alerts
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13. Verifying in COP
● Filter Alert Options –
Priority, Event Type and
Scope
● Profile Page for
Individual Alert –
Information on all four
(alert, info, area,
resource) segment of
the CAP Message
● Alert Area – Color
Coded
8/30/2015
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14. Subscriptions
1. Filter : Event Type, Priority, Locations, Language
2. Notify On: New Records, Records Updates
3. Frequency: Daily, Hourly, Immediately, Never, Weekly
4. Notify By: Email (only), SMS (only) or both
5. URL - /eden/default/index/subscriptions
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15. Subscriptions
Filter
• Event Type: Flood
• Priority: High
• Locations: Nepal(country), can
go to other levels too
• Language: English
Notify On: New Records, Records
Updates
Frequency: Immediately
Notify By: Both Email and SMS
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16. RSS/Atom Feed
● Anonymous (public) roles:
○ Access public alerts
○ URL - /eden/cap/public.rss
● Authenticated (+) users:
○ Access all alerts
○ URL - /eden/cap/alert.rss
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17. Thank You
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