VACCINE Receives Excellence Award for Work with US Coast Guard
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cgSARVA is a visual analytics tool created for maritime search and rescue missions.
VACCINE at Purdue University has been awarded the Commander Atlantic Area’s Excellence Coin for their work with District Nine (Great Lakes) and District One (Boston and New England) of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG).
The prestigious award was presented to Dr. David S. Ebert, Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue and Director of the VACCINE Center, by Vice Admiral Parker, Commander Atlantic Area, USCG.
The VACCINE team worked with the District Nine to develop a software tool called cgSARVA (Coast Guard Search and Rescue Visual Analytics) that allows the USCG to determine potential increase or decrease in risk for factors such as response time, potential lives and property lost and reallocation of available resources. The software tool is currently being used by District Nine, which is responsible for all USCG operations throughout the five Great Lakes.VACCINE has worked with District Nine and the Operational Analysis unit of the Atlantic Area Command to analyze patterns and resource utilization for the search and rescue mission of the USCG within the Great Lakes and hopes to expand the use of the tool to other USCG districts in the future. VACCINE has also provided analysis, pattern identification, and visualization of swimming deaths in the Great Lakes for use in decision making and public service campaigns.
VACCINE researchers collaborated with the CREATE Center at the University of Southern California to develop and refine a tool that provides a more random distribution of SUCG patrol patterns in the Port of Boston area as part of the PROTECT project (Port Resilience Operational/Tactical Enforcement to Combat Terrorism). VACCINE’s role in providing analysis, visualizations and insight were integral to the development and refinement of the PROTECT model deployed in Boston and in defining modifications for deployment in New York City in the fall of 2011.