1. Image from USGS database http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/ By Ana Margarita Simental USING GIS TO OPTIMIZE EMERGENCY ROUTES TO COAL MINES IN BOONE COUNTY WV

2. Emergency Management Cycle

3. Geographically Located Mitigation Preparedness Response Recovery

4. What has happened over the years?

5. Response vs. Mines 311 combined ambulance and fire service units 21 with medical rescue services 15 that offer fire and rescue service 560 fire departments (government and volunteer) 18 deep mine rescue teams 822 active mine or mine related sites in the state 395 of which are deep mines. Source WVGES, WVPTD, WVDEP

6. Boone County WV

7. Methodology Find and classify location models identify key elements and operations Develop core data structures Create a working prototype

8. Software ER Mapper MapInfo MrSid ArcGIS Sources WVGES WVPTD WVDHSEM WVDEP WV Tech Center

9. The Data

10. Typical data standardization process

11. Overlay of the Road, Streets, Rivers and Streams shapefiles From the WVGIS Tech Center

12. Boone County UTM Zone 17 Quadrangles From WVGIS Tech Center and WVPTD.

13. Boone County DOQQs

14. Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangle (Detail)

15. Entrance Point to Big Mountain No.6 Mine

16. Route from Southern WV Mine Rescue to Big Mountain No. 6 and closest Hospital

17. Tabular data converted to spatial data

18. Route Results Using MapPoint.

19. QUESTIONS?