All-Hazard Mitigation Planning Forums

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All-Hazard Mitigation Planning Forums

• Working with Data

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What Data is Required?

• No golden list of required data from FEMA
• Local Planning Assistance Centers data matrix
• Updated November, 2003 - reviewed by FEMA staff
• http//www.lpa.state.mn.us/HazardMitigation/index.
  html

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• Land and Boundaries Data

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• Facilities and Infrastructure Data

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Population Data
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Climate Based Data
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What format GIS, tabular, maps

• What are you showing?
• Repetitive loss structures
• Is location important for your data set?
• Floodplains
• Statewide tornado counts
• Is statistical/tabular information important?
• of the total population

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Past hazard events
http//www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wweven
tstorms
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Additional climate information
http//www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wweven
tstorms
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Data considerations

• Verify state data sets
• Are they accurate?
• Do you need additional attribute information?

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Techniques for supplementing state data

• Gathering
• Entering
• Documenting

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Collect from others data available

• State Agencies MNDOT, LMIC, DNR, Health, PCA,
  DATANET
• County assessor

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Entering information into a GIS

• Heads-up digitizing allows you to enter data into
  a GIS
• GPS
• Accuracy varies
• Does it matter?

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Assemble base information

• Create basemaps for each city and townships using
  highway maps
• Outline major roads using Basemap 2001 created by
  MNDOT
• Add points for data collected
• Data can be entered in GIS

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2003 FSA Aerial Photography

• http//www.lmic.state.mn.us/chouse/airphoto_usda.h
  tml

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Hazard Mitigation Planning
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Natural features
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Internet

• Use business directories to locate information by
  category

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Point Collection with GPS

• Some points must be collected by hand.
• Old photos
• New points
• Places tough to identify on maps

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Collecting attribute information

• What attributes?
• Whats is it? How many? Why is it important?
• Structure type, address, phone number, contact
  name, key resources
• Ex. Cherry Creek fire station, 111 Dalmation
  Drive, Contact Bob Olson, [phone], 6 fire
  trucks,1 hovercraft, 12 crew members.

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Whats new in EPICplanner?

• Heads-up digitizing
• Add a new layer
• Add new points to an existing layer.
• GPS utility
• Uses Waypoint software
• Connects to Garmin GPS receivers

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Dont duck metadata!!!What are Metadata Used
For?

• Managing databases
• Comparing data sets
• Facilitating data sharing
• Providing technical specs
• Finding data
• Create metadata DURING your project
• When you create new data
• When you change existing data
• If you leave metadata until the end, it rarely
  gets done

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Metadata tools

• ArcCatalog
• Part of ESRIs ArcGIS software
• Can customize for MGMG download at
  www.lmic.state.mn.us/chouse/arccatalog.html
• DataLogr
• Independent software
• Customized for MGMG download atwww.lmic.state.m
  n.us/chouse/datalogr.html

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Contact Information

• Aaron Buffington
• Local Planning Assistance Center
• aaron.buffington_at_state.mn.us
• [phone]
• http//www.lpa.state.mn.us/hazardmitigation/index.
  html
• http//www.dem.state.mn.us/