evt-hurricane-milton

Hurricane Milton Response

Coordination of Hurricane Milton Response between federal, state and local public safety organizations. Available as a single page at https://milton.takps.org backed by a GitHub repository

Table of Contents

• Post Storm Imagery
• TAK Servers
• Team Colors
• Data Packages and Resources
• Alternate Comms
• Power Outage Data
• TAK Server Plugin for FL511
• PulsePoint Integration

Post Storm Imagery

(From Joseph Elfelt)

NOAA has started to post high resolution aerial photos taken over areas that may have been affected by Hurricane Milton. So far, 4 flights from October 11 have been posted. You can add that data to ATAK using this MultiLayer XML file:

https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/NOAA_damage_aerials/noaa_aerials_2024_milton.xml

As additional flights take place I will update this XML file.

To view this data in ATAK as an overlay you need to manually placed the XML file in the ATAK grg folder. All other ways to access this data in ATAK will treat the data as a basemap. Reminder: ATAK cannot open the WMTS capabilities file NOAA provides.

Master link to NOAA disaster imagery: https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/

TAK Servers

The following TAK Servers are available:

• LEO / Federal - https://milton.tak.gov. You’ll need to reach out to takrequest at leo.gov for credentials
• SOCOM: CTIC is hosting the server. Contact your appropriate authorities
• FLNG / FLSAR - PAR / BAH is hosting the Sit(X) server for these groups. If you don’t have contact info reach out below and we’ll connect you
• Florida public safety / responders: https://fltak.us should be your starting point. Registration / contact information is available there
• TAK Public Safety has a last resort server at https://takserver.takps.org

If you are authorized to access any of the above and need contact information reach out to hurricanemilton at takps.org and we’ll get you routed to the right spot

A locator URL is available at https://takserver.takps.org:8446/locate/index.html which will broadcast locations through the federated groups. Please reach out to the above takps email address for more information

Team Colors

• For users of FLTAK please refer to their callsigns page for official colors
• For federal users, please refer to your local protocols for team colors and callsigns
• For all others, these are suggested team colors for responders

Data Packages and Resources

• FEMA.REGIONS.nws.zip
• Fire_and_Emergency_Medical_Service__EMS__Stations.kml
• hospital_helipad_20240905.xlsx
• NWS KML Data Package Zip
• Animal_Shelter_MILTON_HADRv1-1.kmz
• GeoJSONs for various Florida assets is available at https://github.com/TAK-Public-Safety/evt-hurricane-milton/tree/main/geojson

Alternate Comms

• The Hurricane Watch Net is active on 14.325.00 MHz (USB) and 7.268.00 MHz (LSB)

Power Outage Data

• Power Outage Map for Florida https://poweroutage.us/area/state/florida
• Josh Fuller has created a KML network link available at https://milton-tak.ddns.network/
• Source code is available at https://github.com/joshuafuller/PowerOutage2ATAK

TAK Server Plugin for FL511

Raytheon BBN (Nate Soule) has developed a TAK Server plugin for FL511 Data. Refer to https://github.com/TAK-Public-Safety/evt-hurricane-milton/tree/main/fl511-plugin to download and install instructions

PulsePoint Integration

• If you want a feed of PulsePoint data, you can federate to the HurricaneMiltonDataFeed on the TAKPS Servers or follow the steps here