Augmented Reality Farm MAPPER Development: Lessons Learned from an App Designed to Improve Rural Emergency Response

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• Personal Author:
  Bendixsen C ; Keifer, Max ; Minor G ; Pilz M ; Weichelt B ; Yoder A
• Description:
  Fire departments have right-of-entry to most commercial industrial sites and preemptively map them to identify the onsite resources and hazards they need to promptly and safely respond to an emergency event. This is not the case for private farms. Emergency responders are blind to resources and hazards prior to arrival and must spend critical minutes locating them during an emergency response at a farm location. The original 2013 Farm Mapping to Assist, Protect and Prepare Emergency Responders (Farm MAPPER) project was undertaken to develop a method to give emergency responders an up-to-date view of on-farm hazard information to safely and efficiently conduct emergency response activities on private agricultural operations. In 2017, an augmented reality version of Farm MAPPER was developed to combine the technological advantages of geographic information system-based data points with a heads-up display and graphical overlay of superimposed hazard imagery and informative icons. The development and testing of this iOS- and Android-ready prototype uncovered lessons learned applicable to other mobilebased apps targeting farmers, ranchers, and rural populations faced with limited or inconsistent mobile internet connectivity. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Emergencies Emergency Responders Farmers Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Industry Author Keywords: Augmented Reality Emergency Responders Emergency Response Farm Safety Farm Workers Fire Department Agriculture Geographic Information Systems GIS Hazards Injuries Injury Mapping Protective Measures Safety Measures Trauma

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• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Nebraska ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  284-296
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20052162
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2018 Jul; 23(3):284-296
• Contact Point Address:
  Bryan Weichelt, National Farm Medicine Center-ML1, 1000 N. Oak Avenue, Marshfield, WI 54449
• Email:
  weichelt.bryan@marshfieldresearch.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Nebraska Medical Center - Omaha
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• End Date:
  20270831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:bfebdb611eb2a31c4ba46a2d261f90842e0991ec9fc5d4ed490e397a3276ba5c094f5b85677c32a4cb196b8c8a5c6ef183fb058372ae2947a924bdd58b73ae8c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/211751/cdc_211751_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.96 MB ]