Common Operational Picture

Homeland security
A Common Operational Picture is

"[a] continuously updated overview of an incident compiled throughout an incident’s lifecycle from data shared between integrated systems for communication, information management, and intelligence and information sharing. The common operational picture allows Incident Managers at all levels to make effective, consistent, and timely decisions. The common operational picture also helps ensure consistency at all levels of incident management across jurisdictions, as well as between various governmental jurisdictions and private sector and nongovernmental entities that are engaged."