Everything CERES does, on one page.

Terrain

• Elevation from USGS and the national lidar and elevation services in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Australia, and a global model everywhere else.
• CERES warns when the ground is too uneven for a flat-ground model, draws a side view of a heavy-gas cloud along the centerline, gives an elevation profile in the ruler, and carries complex terrain in SCICHEM.

Base maps and imagery

• Backgrounds: Google Maps (road, satellite, Street View, live traffic, Places search) or OpenStreetMap; a background for mainland China; a blank background for air-gapped servers; a site's own offline tile pack or tile server.
• Overlays: your own high-resolution imagery; KML/KMZ and WMS layers; a site plan image placed from two known points and kept as a layer.
• Tools: drawing and measurement for emission sources, sensitive receptors, assets, fencelines and zones; location search for addresses, places, coordinates in any notation, railroad crossings and highway mile markers.
• Places: Google Places import for the receptors inside a threat zone, with an optional review before saving; copying a place with its inventory, scenarios, contacts and files.

Layers that load by themselves, worldwide

• Rail: lines, yards, sidings, light rail and metros, drawn as the railroad a responder names, with operator, usage, tracks, electrification and speed.
• Roads: motorway to secondary roads with lanes, speed limit, toll and dangerous-goods rules: designated hazmat routes, prohibitions, tunnel categories.
• Water: rivers, streams and canals with flow-direction arrows, the same waterways an oil spill follows.
• People and places: neighborhoods, suburbs and districts with kind and population; municipalities with population; parks; airports with IATA and ICAO codes; stadiums with capacity; points of interest.
• Listed for you: while a layer is on, the features inside the wind cone, the plume or a Locate Source area appear among the impacted places (the roads to close, the neighborhoods affected, people in the open) and the possible emission sources.

Other reference layers

• NPMS pipelines with their predefined scenarios.
• Railroad crossings and mileposts from the official inventories (FRA in the US, Transport Canada) and from OpenStreetMap elsewhere.
• Fire hydrants; pre-planned boom sites; protected lands (USGS PAD-US); FEMA flood zones; EPZ and EAZ emergency zones.
• Tier II, RMP, Seveso and E2 facilities; census population.

Sources

• The Weather Company: current conditions, hourly and 15-minute forecasts, the last 24 hours of observations; stations nearest first, stale readings flagged.
• The NWS point forecast in Incident Weather; reanalysis weather for incidents in the past, back to 1940.
• Manual entry from the scene; automatic stability class and ERG day or night; forecast fields for SCICHEM.

Your own stations

• AreaRAE Pro, WeatherPak, Columbia, Vaisala, AIRMAR, WeatherFlow Tempest and WeatherSTEM units; Modbus and PI connections; personal weather stations on request.
• Wind, temperature, humidity, pressure and solar radiation archived at one-minute resolution; sensor history and exports.
• Met thresholds and alarms: lightning by the NWS 30/30 rule, heavy rain, high wind, temperature.
• Weather API links: an outside system reads a site's stations through named links that can be revoked one by one.

Incident Weather and the incident weather record

• The forecast read as a hazmat size-up: where a release goes and the sector it can reach, the stability class, the changes in the operational period, heat, cold, lightning and rain for the crews, past weather, and a briefing to paste or export.
• Once an incident has a location, CERES records its weather for the whole response: your station when one reports nearby, otherwise the forecast service at the location; official alerts kept and logged; a forecast snapshot every three hours and at each new operational period.
• The record feeds the ICS 202 weather attachment and a Weather page in the planning packet; at close a summary goes on the log and the after-action report carries one reading an hour.

Makes and protocols

• Blackline Live (G7, EXO, M7); Honeywell Safety Suite (MultiRAE, AreaRAE, AreaRAE Pro); Industrial Scientific iNet (Ventis Pro, Radius); AccuSense and Thiamis units.
• Modbus, OPC, PI Web API, AVEVA CONNECT (on request), MQTT and serial through a CERES data-acquisition unit; an interface for your own systems to push readings.
• Alarms: up to three escalating levels per sensor plus a saturation level.

Gas Detectors board

• Fixed, area, personal and manual readings on the live map, with the active alarms and the latest readings against their alarm levels.
• A readings grid, a sortable table, a chart per gas over 1, 8 or 24 hours, a wall of device screens that turns its own pages, the fleet, a calibration readiness verdict per unit.
• Alarm events with corroboration; the incident declared or opened from an alarm; Locate Source from a gas event; every site you belong to; an Excel export of exactly what the screen shows; a dark theme and a phone layout.

Exposure records

• From detector datalogs and manual readings: one signed and sealed record per person and gas against the site's own limits, with the STEL and the 8-hour TWA.

Air Monitoring and Sampling

• The readings the entry team calls in (instrument, channel, value, where, when), logged in a few taps with gloves on, sealed into the activity log, shown on the monitoring map for everyone and fed to the sensor-driven plume while fresh; the site's own instrument feeds beside them.
• Samples with a full chain of custody: both parties, how the sample is held, signatures, custody and submission forms, a sub-sample with its own number and chain; a white-powder call with its notifications and exposed list; every custody event a sealed line on the incident log with its photo.

Detector Coverage and simulators

• Detector Coverage: where the site's fixed detectors would and would not catch a leak of a design size, with each detector's mounting height against the cloud's, open-path beams, building walls, one wind direction or three years of winds, over satellite imagery, with one- or two-detector voting.
• Simulators: a sensor and device simulator with manufacturer presets, a custom build or a clone of a live device, for drills and commissioning; integration simulators for every supported make, run by Vlahi when commissioning a site's interfaces.

• CPC Breakthrough: chemical-suit and glove breakthrough times by chemical (ASTM F739), with suits and gloves from eight makers and current manufacturer data sheets.
• Respiratory Protection: the legal respirator class (OSHA 1910.134) and the SCBA air time at the work rate.
• APR Canister and Life: whether a canister or cartridge protects against a chemical, and for how many minutes.
• Detector Correction: PID and LEL correction factors and the true concentration from a meter reading, by chemical and instrument, with the catalytic-bead LEL tables and the detector-tube tables.
• Heat Stress and Stay Time: the work and rest cycle, fluids and monitoring cadence in protective clothing, from temperature, humidity and work rate.

• Decontamination Advisor: is wet decon worth it, from volatility and time urgency, then the disrobe and wet or dry decon steps (CHEMM, PRISM, IOR).
• Technical Decon: can this product decontaminate this contaminant on this surface; every answer names who says so (a regulator, a standards body, a published test or the maker) and the day it was checked.
• Decon Runoff and Containment: how much contaminated water decon makes, whether the berm or pool holds it, plus drums, totes and absorbent.
• Disinfectant Finder: which EPA-registered disinfectants kill this pathogen and how long the surface must stay wet, by disease or EPA Reg. No., read from EPA's own lists, with what your agency carries marked.
• The decon line with its stations and accountability on the Command Board.
• Post-Fire Preliminary Exposure Reduction (NFPA 1851): the on-scene decon of each firefighter's gear logged from the phone (method, gear elements, the NIOSH follow-through with the time of each step), reaching the incident log and the exposure record.
• Rehab Tracker (NFPA 1584): check crews in from the Command Board with one tap, capture vitals and the medical screening against the NFPA 1584 gates, time the rest cycle, log fluids, release or transport, with pre-entry hazmat baselines and every step optional per agency.

• Toxidrome: the likely toxic syndrome and antidote from the patient's signs (CHEMM and WISER rules), opening the matching drug cards.
• Antidote Dosing: weight-based mg and mL dosing for hazmat and CBRN antidotes (CHEMM, REMM, FDA); fixed-dose products return their regimen, never mg/kg.
• Bio/CW Agents cards and Infectious Disease (USAMRIID guide, EMS playbook, CDC notices), free on every plan.
• Triage Tracker: tag mass-casualty patients by color in two taps (START, SALT or RAMP questions), live counts, photos, hospitals placed on the map and alerted through Notify, patient records sent to the offered hospitals, a triage report.
• START / JumpSTART (adult and pediatric), SALT (the US all-hazards method) and Burn Triage (percent TBSA by Rule of Nines or age-adjusted Lund-Browder, the Parkland or Brooke starting rate, ABA burn-center referral criteria).
• Radiation set: the Radiation Calculator (unit conversion, gamma dose rate, stay time, fallout decay), Radiation Dose from Vomiting (AFRRI BAT, Demidenko), ARS Management (REMM, Waselenko), Radiation Countermeasures (potassium iodide, Prussian blue, Ca/Zn-DTPA, myeloid cytokines) and Scarce-Resource Radiation Triage (REMM).

Command Board

• Drag crews onto assignments; one-tap PAR; air and work-cycle timers; MAYDAY; alarms that sound until acknowledged.
• The ICS 214 log writing itself; ICS 201 and 211 exports; the ICS 207 org chart on a second screen; a decon line with stations; units placed on the incident map; cards and sections edited on the board itself.
• Works without a connection.

People

• My Status from the phone: Available, On-Duty, Responding with destination and ETA, On Scene; GPS shared only while responding; every change logged to the ICS 214.
• Team/Site Status Board: live roster, per-status counts, teams, officer overrides, PAR roll calls, a responder-emergency alarm, wallboard mode; Multi-Site Readiness across every site you may see.
• Roster by QR code with a phone-only Status and Tasks role; responder location drawn against the wind cone and the zones.
• Personnel Manager: one page per person with every incident from the exposure record, hot-zone minutes, PPE, SCBA, rehab, decon, chemicals with CAS, gas-detector records, training and the ICS 214 log; officers see everyone, each member sees and downloads their own.

The record and the command post

• Incident Manager: header, tasks, operational periods, a live activity log with responder, ICS role, time and tags; an incident location set by dispatch, the facility on file or a responder, with Directions and Weather.
• Incident Sketch and Mark-Up: freehand or over a graph board, an aircraft outline, the DOT/MC cargo-tank and rail-car family, a photo or the live map; NIMS symbols; tank compartments tagged with product and status; a wind arrow; print or post to the board.
• Open Action Tracker (ICS 233), Cost Review against published rate schedules with the FEMA schedule loadable, and the Coordinate Converter (any notation in, all out, offline).
• Incident Desk: tools open in windows side by side, attached to the incident, so every input and answer lands in the record and is shared live with the crew.

From dispatch

• CAD e-mails and text messages become incidents, placed at the street they name, with the Tier II facilities nearby checked; a held inbox and automatic declaration for trusted senders; dispatch links pasted in the chat become unit cards and a dispatcher timeline.

ICS forms and packets

• Ten FEMA ICS forms filled from the record: 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 207, 208, 211, 214, 233.
• A personal ICS 214 and a CAN report (conditions, actions, needs) from the phone; the IAP packet; the ICS 202 weather attachment; the after-action export; Word or PDF.

CERES Chat

• Channels for the site and for every incident, private messages, photos and files, @mentions and push notifications.
• Plumes and tool results shared as cards; every message sealed as part of the incident record; a channel exported as a PDF; team channels shared with a linked partner agency.

CERES Video and voice

• Calls start from any chat conversation; an incident's own call pages the crew and is recorded, with start and end on the incident log.
• Calls on any other channel, camera-off huddles inside the chat, a waiting room for guests from outside CERES, live camera video.
• A Photos and video table of every recording with verification records, legal hold and delete for administrators.
• Calls ring on every open CERES page and on the phones; HAZMAT Team includes unlimited minutes and recording on every level.

CERES Docs and Sheets

• Documents and spreadsheets written together in the browser, with comments, mentions, version history, Word, Excel and CSV import, charts and pivot tables, attached to the incident with their kept versions in the record.

Sharing and mutual aid

• Share links that partners open without an account; a public common-operating-picture link for an EOC wall or a public-information channel, opened with the layers you had on.
• Share view only: a frozen copy of any tool result at a short public address; e-mailed reports to Contacts and Resources groups.
• Site sharing of detectors and met stations with a partner site during an incident.
• Linked incidents between CERES accounts: an approved partner agency reads the map, copies scenarios, sees the shared sensors and the host's Command Boards read-only, and shares team channels.
• Status boards on digital signage; site-to-site sync of zones and places between the sites you administer, with preview and undo; remote support.

Team resources

• Contacts and Resources: the response phone book (dispatch, hospitals, CHEMTREC, key people), kept current by administrators, with groups that feed the call-down and the report e-mails.
• Agency Equipment: the fans, gas meters, PPE and respirator cartridges the agency carries, pinned and highlighted across the tools.
• Useful Links (CERES references and manuals plus the links administrators add) and Rate Schedules (the published equipment rates incident bills are priced from).

Incident Notification

• Call-down of your own list and partner agencies by e-mail, SMS and voice, from pre-plan templates, with location, summary, point of contact, chemical, plume links and photos.
• Groups; a per-recipient delivery log; a monthly allowance of messages included, or your own Twilio account; every text ends with a STOP line and contacts carry consent notes; hospitals in the phone book are reachable.

Public Alert PRO

• A CAP 1.2 alert drafted from a run's threat zones or an incident's zones, shelter or evacuate, with simplified areas, recipients, Update and Cancel, a log and a zone map.
• Sent to the call-down groups by e-mail and SMS with the CAP file attached, and handed to the county or EOC operator who issues the public warning; the evacuation instruction reads the same in all 11 languages.

Exports

• KMZ/KML, Esri shapefile and CAP from the report dialog for every report type; NetCDF for SCICHEM fields; weather-alert and weather-briefing exports.

What is sealed

• A chained activity log that shows any later change.
• Photos sealed with their time, GPS position and accuracy and compass direction, the full-size file kept exactly as it arrived; a swapped, edited or re-dated photo shows in red on Verify record.
• The chat, the call recordings, the samples and every custody event, every tool result and plume run, the weather record, costs, responder exposure records and scenario history for every run.

What comes out

• The ten FEMA ICS forms, a personal ICS 214 and a CAN report, the IAP packet.
• PDF and Word reports with map imagery, zones, population, impacted places, infiltration analysis and the plume-analysis charts, a Scenario Warnings table and head counting.
• The chat as a PDF; custody forms and reports as CERES Docs; a Verification record (PDF) that lets a court or an insurer check a file against its record without CERES; the after-action ZIP; KML/KMZ, shapefile and CAP exports; share links and the public link.

• Tier II Facilities: import Tier II XML, Tier2 Manager and E-Plan exports, Canadian E2 and CAMEO data; facility pages with chemicals (EHS and TPQ), scenarios, 24-hour contacts, site plans and Street View; county-level data with every level, the statewide dataset with Level 3.
• Online filing: facilities file their Tier II report through the site's public link for the planners to review and accept.
• Seveso sites and classified installations (France): imported from the national register, département by département, with each site's rubriques and declared quantities, labeled by tier, and predefined scenarios generated for the chemicals identified.
• RMP inventories, with the largest container as the RMP quantity; Tier II Summary Reports (the EPCRA inventory rolled up across the site, totals, extremely hazardous substances, CSV export).
• Worst-Case Auto-Analysis: the worst-case release batch-modeled for every Tier II or RMP facility chemical, with distances, population, stacked footprints and influencing facilities.
• Predefined scenarios: a library for site-specific and transportation events, pre-plans and drills, response and planning modes; the Vessel Library templates, copied from the library and upgraded when it changes.
• Sensor placement study for a fence line, from the predefined scenarios and the wind rose (on request); Detector Coverage for an existing layout.
• EPZ Directive 071: the Alberta emergency planning zone study of a facility.
• PRV Sizing: a relief valve sized for fire engulfment (NFPA 58, ANSI K61.1, API 521).
• Site sync: zones and places kept in step between the sites you administer, with preview and undo; copying a place carries its inventory, scenarios, contacts and files.

• Six story missions played on a private exercise incident, so nobody is paged: guided mode teaches with hints and tours; tested mode records a qualification with an expiry.
• Basics lessons, close to forty, on the workspace, chemicals, levels of concern, weather, running models, PPE, decon, radiation and blast standoff, spills and fires, batteries, fireworks, vent stacks, neutralizing and diluting, boilover and BESS fires.
• Three incident-command lessons: taking command, the roster and the record, accountability.
• The chief's Team tab with the matrix, curricula and assignments; progress stays on each member's record.
• A how-to tour on every tool, most with a practice mode; HSEEP-style ratings and after-action review; remote training sessions with the setup.

• Runs on: any modern browser on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android, nothing to install; iOS and Android apps with push notifications, background location for responder tracking, calls that ring over the lock screen, exports saved to the phone; the Command Board and the coordinate converter work offline.
• Languages and units: eleven languages including the help: English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Romanian, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Malay and Hebrew (right to left throughout); every language but English on paid plans; metric or US units per user.
• Sign-in: e-mail and password with optional two-factor authentication per site, or Microsoft, Google and Apple accounts; password policies and protection against password guessing.
• Roles and links: from phone-only responder to site and organization administrator; share links limited to what you publish, with a per-site expiry.
• Audit: security events written to the log; deletions recorded with who and when.
• Administration: every admin item on one Administration page: users and roles, sensors and interfaces, alarm levels, predefined scenarios, feeds and layers, control-zone buffers, ICS form preferences, public-link expiry, imports, chemicals, sensor names; organization administration across sites.
• Delivery and support: cloud service at ceres.vlahi.com, updated continuously, or a private deployment; 24/7 e-mail support with a reply by the next business day and telephone support during CST business hours; help in every language, with a tour on every tool.