Contra Costa County in California has opened a new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) featuring a state-of-the-art situation room equipped with the latest real-time visualization technology.

The United States European Command (USEUCOM), based in Stuttgart, Germany, conducts military operations and international military engagement in defense of U.S and transatlantic security. USEUCOM directs operations of more than 50,000 personnel across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. Its Mission Command Center comprises the Joint Operations Center (JOC), its strategic and operational hub, and the Senior Decision Cell (SDC), a high-end briefing center and situation room.

Marrying a variety of software and hardware, the goal of a video wall in any operations center or monitoring center is to provide operators with the visual information they need to monitor, assess and respond accordingly to a variety of threats.

In general, 4K UHD refers to an input, display panel or projector that has four times the resolution of high-definition (HD) video. 4K UHD actually defines two different resolutions.