Capability
Federal-grade situational awareness, delivered as part of the platforms agencies depend on.
Solid Logix builds and operates the geospatial and data systems behind emergency management workflows, integrating authoritative federal sources, supporting decision-making during active operations, and sustaining the platforms responders rely on between events.
The interactive demonstration below pulls live data from the U.S. National Hurricane Center using the same kind of public federal feature services we routinely integrate into mission systems. It reflects the engineering, integration, and operations practices we apply to platforms that have to perform when conditions are at their worst.
- Live integration with NOAA, FEMA, and federal authoritative data sources
- AWS GovCloud and FedRAMP-aligned architectures
- 24/7 operations posture with structured incident response
- RMF-aligned cybersecurity and continuous evidence generation
- Geospatial visualization for situational awareness and decision support
Hurricane Operations Toolkit
Switch between the situational-awareness tracker and the evacuation clearance-time estimator. Same stack, same delivery patterns, paired in one workflow.
A live feed from the U.S. National Hurricane Center covering the Atlantic, East Pacific, and Central Pacific basins, layered with the decision-support data emergency managers actually use: forecast cones, observed and projected tracks, coastal watches and warnings, and the wind impact swaths (tropical-storm-force at 34 kt, strong tropical-storm at 50 kt, hurricane-force at 64 kt+, and observed wind footprints already on the ground). Switch to Recent Major to explore simplified HURDAT2 best-track records for selected Atlantic hurricanes. Outside Atlantic season the demo automatically falls back to the historical view so the capability is always visible.
Federal Data Sources Integrated
Every layer above comes from an authoritative federal feed.
The tracker isn't a mockup. It pulls from the same public federal services that mission systems we build, sustain, and modernize routinely depend on, wired together on the client to keep the path between source and operator short.
NHC Active Hurricanes
Forecast cones, projected tracks, observed positions, coastal watches & warnings, wind-impact swaths
NHC Tropical Weather Summary
Potential development polygons, 2- & 7-day formation points, wind arrival isochrones, P-Surge inundation rasters
NWS API · TWO Products
Prose Tropical Weather Outlooks across Atlantic, East Pacific, and Central Pacific basins; parsed for narrative cards
NHC ATCF A-Decks
Operational model forecast tracks (the “spaghetti” ensemble) served through a server-side proxy
NDBC Real-Time Buoys
Coastal and offshore observation stations for in-situ wind, pressure, wave, and SST observations
NASA GIBS · MUR SST
Sea surface temperature satellite imagery as a background context layer for intensification signals
NHC HURDAT2
Atlantic best-track archive supplying historical analog comparison and the off-season fallback view
CARTO Positron + OSM
Light, low-distraction basemap that lets operational data layers carry the visual weight
Decision Support Lifecycle
Different decisions, different data — the same platform.
Emergency managers don't look at one map. They cycle through a sequence of decision windows, each anchored to a different set of authoritative data layers. The tracker above surfaces the layers that matter at each phase, so the same operational picture follows the storm from formation through recovery.
Awareness & Posture
- Activate planning cells and brief leadership
- Pre-position decision-support staff and comms
- Initiate inter-agency coordination cycles
Decision Threshold
- Issue tropical storm / hurricane watches
- Stage shelter and transportation resources
- Begin clearance-time and route-capacity planning
Evacuation Window
- Issue mandatory evacuation orders
- Activate contra-flow on primary routes
- Open shelters; pre-stage commodities
Shelter-in-Place
- Close evacuation routes and bridges
- Finalize SAR pre-positioning and air-asset staging
- Suspend non-essential operations and assemble after-action team
Damage Assessment & Restoration
- Route damage-assessment teams by wind exposure
- Prioritize restoration along critical-infrastructure corridors
- Document the event against historical analogs for lessons learned
Capability Deep Dive
Storm surge, wind arrival, and the math behind evacuation orders.
Evacuation isn't a single decision — it's a chain of decisions made on different clocks. Storm surge zones, projected tropical-storm-force wind arrival, and route clearance capacity each move at different speeds and demand different visualizations.
We integrate the federal authoritative sources behind each of those decisions and surface them in a single operating picture: NHC's Probabilistic Storm Surge (P-Surge) inundation depths, tropical-storm-force wind arrival isochrones (both earliest reasonable and most likely), observed wind swath footprints already on the ground, and the advisory products that anchor every official order.
The result is a platform that lets emergency managers see at every advisory cycle how the operational picture has shifted and what the next decision window looks like, instead of waiting for the next briefing slide.
- When will tropical-storm-force winds first reach this coastline?
- What is the inundation depth probability for this evacuation zone?
- How much clearance time remains before route closures must begin?
- Where has hurricane-force wind already been observed?
- How does the earliest-reasonable arrival differ from the most-likely arrival for resource staging?
- How does this storm's projected impact compare to historical analogs?
What This Demonstrates
The same practices we apply to mission systems
Live Federal Data Integration
Direct integration with NOAA's National Hurricane Center feature services, the same kind of authoritative federal data feeds we wire into mission systems for downstream agencies, partner systems, and decision support tools.
Operational Geospatial Visualization
Forecast cones, observed and projected tracks, and watch/warning polygons rendered with the styling emergency managers expect. Built on open standards (GeoJSON, vector tiles) suitable for governed cloud environments.
Built for Governed Environments
Architecture and integration patterns aligned to operate inside AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP-bounded networks, and CWBI-style enterprise platforms, with security and continuity engineered in from the start.
Continuous, Observable, and Recoverable
Resilient client-side fetching, graceful handling of upstream availability, and clear operational signaling. The off-season "no active systems" message is the same kind of explicit operational state we build into the platforms we sustain.
USACE Civil Works Database Authorization
Solid Logix added granular access control to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works data environment that supports reservoir, dam, lock, and river operations nationwide. Delivered ahead of schedule, with excellent CPARS performance, and no disruption to the live system.