Presentation on Esri European User Conference 2011 by Wageningen University.

1. Geo-Information in animal
disease outbreak management
Esri European User Conference, October 2011, Madrid
Henk Janssen, Igor Staritsky and Bas Vanmeulebrouk (Alterra, Wageningen-
UR)
Arco van der Spek, Paul Leijs, Dennis Kok (Food and Consumer Product Safety
Authority, Ministry of EL&I)

2. Presentation setup
The Dutch situation
Dutch pilots of GIS in animal disease crisis
management
Future developments?

3. The Netherlands Slovenia
SEPTEMBE
41.160 Km2 R 2007
320 km
>16 million inhabitants
4 million cattle
180 km
12 million pigs
100 million poultry
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4. Pig density Poultry density

5. Large Outbreaks in NL in recent years
1997: Classic Swine Fever (+/- 8 million animals)
2001: Foot and Mouth disease (200.000 animals
eradicated)
2003: Avian Influenza (31,6 million birds
eradicated, 30% of the population)
Blue tongue (sheep)
Q-fever (goats)

6. Research questions of nVWA
(Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority in NL)
nVWA needs to maintain quarantine areas
nVWA needs timely, correct and complete farm and area
information in case of contagious animal disease outbreak
nVWA desires online (internet-based) GIS-applications as
integrated part of their workflow
Research question: can we prepare adequate datasets
and software tools to meet the demands?

7. Workflow during disease crisis situations
Farm -> suspicious Specialists team (Animal Health
symptoms Service and VWA)
-Veterinarian or other within 3 h - Clinical inspection
source
- Sampling
- Filing
Letter of suspicion
- Declaration of suspicion
Positive testing
ACCUTE INFORMATION DEMAND ACTION !
- location of farms - Surveillance zone (10km)
- location and number of animals - Protection zone (3 km)
- geographic relations - Culling of infected holding + 1
km zone

8. Our approach
Data: testing of coupling/quality of available
datasets
Software tools: The proof of the pudding…
Process: embedding geo-information in workflow

9. Coupling of parcels and farm locations
Combination % parcels % grassland
UBN - BRS 64 79
Postal code house nr 32 18
LPIS – Annual Census 3 2
No coupling 1 1

10. Visualize
data
quality
Light green =
arable crops

11. Pilot (web-)GIS-applications for use in contagious
animal disease crises in NL
PIKET (English: Picket but also Picket Officer )
Application for geographical determination and textual description of
quarantine areas (Surveillance zone + Protection zone)
GEMMA (Geographic Event Management and Monitoring
Application)
Data-selection tool, based on information from Dutch LPIS (‘BRP’), I&R,
GIAB (farm location (x,y on shed level)
Internet based
Time line

12. Protection and Observation areas
Avian Influenza
Observation
area
compartment
Bufferzone
Bufferzone
10 km
T-area
3 km Protection
B-area
area
Culling area (1km)
Vaccination area

13. First step: PIKET: describe quarantine area

14. Suspicion site (roads, rail, water way)

15. Suspicion site (only roads)

16. Suspicion site (roads, etc. + junctions)

17. Suspicion site (barricaded junctions)

18. Suspicion site (‘stops’ around zone)

19. Suspicion site (route around zone)

20. Suspicion site (description of route)

21. Suspicion site (with aerial photo)

22. GEMMA: Use of different map layers
Active layers
selectable by placing
a ‘tick’, the ‘i’ makes
the data of the geo-
objects ‘identifiable’
Identify to show
details
Map layers are
served using ArcIMS
(ESRI)

23. Creation of a new suspicion
New suspicion by
selecting a
agricultural holding
Pan and zoom in the
map (standard
functionality) New suspicion by
selecting a location
on the map
Circles with
adjustable radius

24. Selection and presentation of farms
Foot and Mouth-
suspicion
Initial suspician
Different sub-selects
(based on defined
circles)
Farm with parcels
within the circles

25. Interactive drawing of boundaries
Digitizing tools
Time line tool
Second suspicion
Digitized area with a
name

26. Presentation of the timeline of suspicions
‘Free’ holdings in
green
Timeline selector
‘Free’ holding
restricted by second
suspicion

27. Details of a holding
Inspection tool (for
details of the farm)
Data from I&R and
Annual Census
Parcels of the
selected holding
Holding 221449 in
Google Maps
Holding 221449

28. Reports
A printable map
(PDF)
All holdings in
Excell
Holding 221449

29. Process support in crisis simulation/training

30. Support of crisis simulation/training

31. Support of crisis simulation/training

32. Concluding remarks
nVWA/EL&I have the data
Work flow can be supported using geo
information/GIS
Need for synchronizing developments
Next step is operational integration of data, tools
and end user process