In order to protect our people and our infrastructures, it is necessary to always stay one step ahead to prevent or mitigate the effects of a crisis or a disaster. Different types of emergencies will arise, from road accidents to pandemics or natural disasters. In order to prevent or deal with the damage, it is necessary to work proactively and create contingency. The ones how are prepared are most likely to handle the crisis. To have a good overview of the situation and the possibility to communicate and understand each other, use each others resources and if necessary work alongside to avoid the crisis's and to improve behaviors, work procedures and skills, a situation awareness system is useful. Operational pictures and information are an essential part of the basis for obtaining common situation awareness for partners, authorities and organizations. The systems give the user correct real-time data presented in a media that the specific situation demands, e.g web, map, mobile, pda etc.