Patent ID: 6999876

Claim:
A method for deploying and coordinating field assessment surveillance in response to an emergency event, said method comprising: receiving as mutually associated input to an emergency management data processing system: an event identifier; a region specifier; and a field surveillance attribute category specifier; and generating an event-specific field assessment record that associates the event identifier with the specified region and the specified field surveillance attribute category; wherein the emergency management data processing system includes a field assessment database for storing and processing field surveillance attribute data, and wherein said generating an event-specific field assessment record comprises retrieving field surveillance attribute data from the field assessment database corresponding to the geographic area specified by the region specifier and further corresponding to the specified field surveillance attribute category; and wherein said generating an event-specific field assessment record comprises associating a set of one or more mobile data collection entities with the event identifier, the specified region and the specified field surveillance attribute category; wherein the event-specific field assessment record is a geospatial data record stored in a geospatial database that indexes the event-specific field assessment record in accordance with the event identifier; and deploying and coordinating field assessment surveillance responsive to said input and said event-specific field assessment record.