3-1 Query Tools GIS in Emergency Management and Homeland Security

5-2 Why do you need a selection? Selected features Analysis Edit Use to select other features Create a new flyer Convert to graphics Calculate statistics Report Export

5-3 Available Selection Tools Interactive, attributes, location, graphics Selected set Interactive selection tool

5-4 Selection Methods Specify from Selection menu Create new selection Select from selection Remove from the selection Add to the selection

5-5 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

5-6 Selection Layers The Set Selectable Layers option allows you to choose the layers that you can select by clicking on the map.

5-7 Attribute Selection Select features based on an attribute value.

5-8 Select by Location (spatial query) Use features in one layer to select features in another.

5-9 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.

5-10 Query Exercise  Washington County Floodplain

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3-12 Academic Applications of GIS GIS in Emergency Management and Homeland Security

5-13 Goals  Applications of GIS in an academic environment  Resources – curriculum, user groups and more  Conclusions

5-14 Academic Applications of GIS Contributes to each facet of faculty professional development

5-15 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

5-16 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?

5-17 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

5-18 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

3-19 HAZUS-MH – GIS Science and Risk Assessment

5-20 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

5-21 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)

5-22 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

5-23 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

5-24 Supported Hazards Hurricanes Riverine and Coastal Floods Earthquakes

5-25 Who Uses HAZUS?  Over 4,200 users in 2004 – 19,600 users predicted by 2008  International users – Norway, Turkey, and Sweden pilot programs

5-26 Other Resources  HAZUS Overview  HAZUS Library  Model Details  User Group Information  Training

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5-28 Loss Estimation Methodology

5-29 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

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3-31 Hurricane Model Overview

5-32 Supported States  Model includes 22 gulf and east coast states as well as Hawaii

5-33 Hurricane Scenarios  Individual storms  User-defined  Historical  Probabilistic

5-34 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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3-39 Flood Model Overview

5-40 Flood Scenarios  Specific Return Intervals  Specific Discharge Frequency (riverine)  Annualized Losses  Quick Look  What-If  Levees  Flow Regulation  Velocity

5-41 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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3-46 Earthquake Model Overview

5-47 Earthquake Scenarios  User defined events  Historic events  Probabilistic events

5-48 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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5-52 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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5-55 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

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5-57 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

5-58 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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3-62 Resources

5-63 HAZUS User Groups  Networking  Communication  Collaboration  Projects  Training  Information

5-64 Resources  Research Centers  Natural Hazards Center in Boulder, CO  Universities  Journals  Training  Regional HUGs  State Emergency Management  EMI  Curriculum 

5-65 Resources  zus-mh.html zus-mh.html  Service pack, GIS, Examples, Computer Requirements   HAZUS Information, Order Form, HAZUS Tools, FEMA, HAZUS Library, Contacts   HAZUS Users Groups (HUG), Training, Resources, Data, Reports, Blog, News 

3-66 Conclusions

5-67 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

3-68 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

5-69 Acknowledgements  Federal Emergency Management Agency  Kevin Mickey  Hazus.org  California University of Pennsylvania  3RiversHUG

5-70 Discussion Points  Advantages/Disadvantages  Probability of using HAZUS/Inhibiting Factors  HAZUS User Groups  University uses of HAZUS

3-71 Questions?