# Presentation: 701027

## Query Tools

- GIS in Emergency Management and Homeland Security

## Why do you need a selection?

- Selectedfeatures

- Analysis

- Edit

- Use to select other features

- Create a new flyer

- Convert to graphics

- Calculate statistics

- Report

- Export

## Available Selection Tools

- Interactive, attributes, location, graphics

- Selected set

- Interactive selection tool

## Selection Methods

- Specify from **Selection** menu

**Create new selection**

**Select from selection**

**Remove from the selection**

**Add to the selection**

## Interactive Selection

- Options from Selection menu
- Select features partially or completely within the box or graphic(s)
- Select features completely within                         the box or graphic(s)
- Select features that the box or                            graphic are completely within

## Selection Layers

- The Set Selectable Layers option allows you to choose the        layers that you can select by clicking on the map.

## Attribute Selection

- Select features based on an attribute value.

## Select by Location (spatial query)

- Use features in one layer to select features in another.

## Calculating Statistics

- 1. Select some features and open the feature attribute table.

- 3. Review the summary statistics and close the Statistics box when you are finished.

- 2. Choose **Statistics** from the field context menu.

## Query Exercise

- Washington County Floodplain

## Questions...

## Academic Applications of GIS

- GIS in Emergency Management and Homeland Security

## Goals

- Applications of GIS in an academic environment
- Resources – curriculum, user groups and more
- Conclusions

## Academic Applications of GIS

- Contributes to each facet of faculty professional development

## Academic Applications of GIS

- Teaching
- Course projects, labs, data
- Technology, Emergency Management, GIS, Economics, Engineering, Science, Geography, Remote Sensing
- Research
- Grants
- Multidisciplinary
- Mitigation and Preparedness
- Service
- Collaboration with public/private sectors
- Federal, State, Local, community projects

## Teaching

- Graduate or Undergraduate level applications
- General Education courses
- Examples
- Emergency Management – risk assessment, hazard profile, social vulnerability, critical infrastructure, lifelines, emergency response
- Geography – mapping applications for emergency planning, demographics, physical geography
- Planning – zoning, building ordinances, land use
- Engineering – modeling, basic engineering applications
- Earth Sciences – geology, meteorology
- Can we think of others?

## Teaching

- California University of Pennsylvania
- B.A. Geography concentration in GIS & Emergency Management
- Demographic Analysis
- Climatology
- Impacts and Sustainability of Tourism
- Developing the Master Plan
- Geographic Information Systems
- GIS 2
- Crime Mapping & Spatial Analysis
- Natural Hazards
- Emergency Management
- Disaster Vulnerability Assessment

## Research

- Multidisciplinary collaborations
- Private/Public sector and university collaborations
- Scenarios, Loss estimates, Models, Economics, Engineering
- Data
- Flood Model
- Hurricane/Wind Model
- Earthquake Model
- Internships – valuable experience for students

## HAZUS-MH – GIS Science and Risk Assessment

## What is HAZUS?

- Facilitates a risk-based approach to mitigation
- Calculates scientifically-defensible damages, economic losses, and mitigation benefits
- Identifies and visually displays hazards and vulnerabilities
- Free ArcGIS 9 extension

## What is HAZUS?

- HAZUS-MH allows user to
**IDENTIFY** vulnerable areas
**ASSESS** level of readiness and preparedness to deal with a disaster before disaster occurs
**ESTIMATE** potential losses from specific hazard events
**DECIDE** on how to allocate resources for most effective and efficient response and recovery
**PRIORITIZE** mitigation measures that need to be implemented to reduce future losses (what if)

## What is HAZUS?

- Inventory is divided into two categories
- Common to all hazards
- General building types and occupancies
- Lifelines
- Replacement costs
- Demographics
- Hazard-specific
- Specific building types
- Elevation
- Building configurations

## User Levels

- Level 3

- Level 2

- Level 1

**Combinations of local and default hazard, building, and damage data **

**Default hazard, inventory, and damage information **

**Input hazard specific data **

**Required**
**User Effort and **
**Sophistication**

## Supported Hazards

**Hurricanes**

**Riverine and Coastal Floods**

**Earthquakes**

## Who Uses HAZUS?

- Over 4,200 users in 2004 – 19,600 users predicted by 2008
- International users – Norway, Turkey, and Sweden pilot programs

## Other Resources

- HAZUS Overview
- HAZUSLibrary
- Model Details
- User Group Information
- Training

- _www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/hazus/index.shtm_

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## Loss Estimation Methodology

## Damage/Loss Functions

- Assess damage and losses based on hazard conditions
- Example – Hurricane model has 1884 unique building categories
- 45 damage/loss functions for each building model
- ~85,000 unique damage/loss curves

## Output

- Hurricane Model Overview

## Supported States

- Model includes 22 gulf and east coast states as well as Hawaii

## Hurricane Scenarios

- Individual storms
- User-defined
- Historical
- Probabilistic

## Hurricane/Wind Model

- Meteorology (wind speed, storm surge, forecast)
- Emergency response
- Wind engineering
- Building codes, zoning
- Mitigation and preparedness activities (evacuation routes, shelters, awareness)
- Debris removal
- Infrastructure and utilities
- Vulnerability

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## Flood Model Overview

## Flood Scenarios

- Specific Return Intervals
- Specific Discharge Frequency (riverine)
- Annualized Losses
- Quick Look
- What-If
- Levees
- Flow Regulation
- Velocity

## Flood Model

- Meteorology, Geology, and Hydrology (data input, forecast)
- Building codes, zoning
- Emergency response
- Army Corps of Engineers
- NFIP and FIRM
- Mitigation and preparedness activities (buyouts, dams, 100 year flood, cost-benefit analysis, awareness)
- Emergency response
- Infrastructure

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## Earthquake Model Overview

## Earthquake Scenarios

- User defined events
- Historic events
- Probabilistic events

## Earthquake Model

- Geophysics (shaking, liquefaction, landslides)
- Geology (soils)
- Earthquake engineering
- Building codes
- Mitigation and preparedness activities (e.g. retrofitting, awareness programs)
- Utilities
- Infrastructure
- Emergency response

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## Transportation Plan and Implementation Strategy

- Greater Memphis Region
- Approx 15% of Bridges Operational
- 10 Operational
- 47 Operational w/ Damage
- 16 Restored w/in 30 Days
- 365 Restored after 30 Days
- Surface Streets most viable Alternate Routes
- Majority of 5-State Region Bridges are Undamaged

**Emergency Route Planning: Scenario Impact on Bridges**

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## HAZUS - Data

- National database
- Valuable resource
- Must realize limitations (e.g. buildings dispersed evenly in county)
- Data analysis methods/models
- GPS data
- Level 2 and 3 analyses

## Service Learning 

- Data collection to improve local data inventory
- GIS support for risk assessment and mitigation planning
- Technical support for Level 2 and Level 3 analysis
- Engineering and planning support for mitigation
- Evacuation, shelter, medical, emergency response, debris removal needs assessment
- Cost benefit analysis

## Service

- Improve understanding of hazards and potential impacts
- Data and mapping repository for regional users
- Technical training support for HAZUS-MH and applications
- Participation in regional HAZUS User Groups
- Students as “cheap” labor, internships

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## Resources

## HAZUS User Groups

- Networking
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Projects
- Training
- Information

## Resources

- Research Centers
- Natural Hazards Center in Boulder, CO
- Universities
- Journals
- Training
- Regional HUGs
- State Emergency Management
- EMI _[http://www.training.fema.gov/emiweb/](http://www.training.fema.gov/emiweb/)_
- Curriculum
- _[http://www.training.fema.gov/emiweb/edu/](http://www.training.fema.gov/emiweb/edu/)_

## Resources

- _[http://www.esri.com/industries/public_safety/business/fema_hazus-mh.html](http://www.esri.com/industries/public_safety/business/fema_hazus-mh.html)_
- Service pack, GIS, Examples, Computer Requirements
- _http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/hazus/_
- HAZUS Information, Order Form, HAZUS Tools, FEMA, HAZUS Library, Contacts
- _[http://hazus.org/](http://hazus.org/)_
- HAZUS Users Groups (HUG), Training, Resources, Data, Reports, Blog, News
- _[http://www.polis.iupui.edu/tpc/](http://www.polis.iupui.edu/tpc/)_

## Conclusions

## Conclusions

- Win-win situation
- University improves community relationship, collaborations, networking, resources
- Faculty develops professionally, tenure promotion, combines teaching, research, and service agendas
- Students gain experience, learn state-of-the-art technology, internships, research, useful projects, marketable for jobs
- Private sector gains opportunity, contacts, resources, interns, business continuity planning
- Government improves emergency management, proactive mitigation activities, protects citizens, valuable cheap labor from students, improves data/resources, private sector expertise
- Community safety, loss reduction, raised awareness, knowledge

## Conclusions

- Tremendous opportunity for increasing use of GIS and HAZUS-MH in academia.
- HAZUS can be used to contribute to each facet of faculty professional development.
- Collaboration is the key (multidisciplinary, multiagency, multijurisdictional) and the challenge
- Many resources available and many are free!
- HUGs are a valuable resource
- Real impact – reduce casualties and damages

## Acknowledgements

- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Kevin Mickey
- Hazus.org
- California University of Pennsylvania
- 3RiversHUG

## Discussion Points

- Advantages/Disadvantages
- Probability of using HAZUS/Inhibiting Factors
- HAZUS User Groups
- University uses of HAZUS

## Questions?