Historic preservation response methodology based on the Hurricane Katrina model
By: [Deidre McCarthy] ; U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources Geographic Information Services ; U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA
Contributors: United States. National Park Service. Cultural Resources Geographic Information Services; United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
Publisher: National Park Service, Cultural Resources Geographic Information Services; FEMA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Description: "At the request of FEMA, the National Park Service Cultural Resources GIS facility created a strategy to help FEMA meet its NHPA (National Historic Preservation Act) obligations focusing on New Orleans, LA. Combining GPS and GIS tools, CRGIS constructed a methodology to identify and evaluate all potentially affected properties. Additionally it provided a means for historic preservationists to determine the historic significance of individual resources through GIS. CRGIS incorporated its draft Federal agency-wide cultural resource spatial data standards, allowing the GIS to serve additionally as a management tool, sharing data among all ... involved in the recovery"--P. v.
Notes: Shipping list no.: 2009-0047-P.