GeoSupport for Hurricane Sandy

“The Importance of NOAA Satellites” Panel NOAA Satellite Conference 2013

12 April, 2013

Chris VaughanGeospatial Information OfficerDHS/FEMA

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Outcome Based Results Whole Community approach to geospatial operations

FEMA’s Modeling Task Force On-call, distributed analysis Real-time analysis to affect decisions

Civil Air Patrol/NOAA collected 157,000+ images

Over 147,000 individual structural assessments Expedited rental assistance Supported multiple interagency programs

Ability to Innovate

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Hurricane Sandy MOTF Timeline

NRCC Activation, USGS MA’sHLT Deployment (Oct 23), Hurricane Sandy County Risk Matrix (QPF, Wind loss, CFLA, SLOSH models), MOTF portal

LandfallMigration to impact analysis, Hindcast SLOSH, portal updates

Hybrid hindcast SLOSH, preliminary HWM observations (±150), expedited rental assistance, portal updates

Field verified inundation (±300 observations), medium resolution (10 meter), portal, expedited assistance, NFIP updates

Field verified inundation (±1,000 observations), high resolution, LiDAR-based, major portal, expedited assistance, NFIP updates

High resolution (3 ft LiDAR) observed inundation NYC OEM, Nor’easter surge modeling

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Hurricane Sandy County Impact Analysis

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CAP Response Highlights

Tasked by three FEMA regions Airborne imagery, light air transportation, shelter management, and other

250+ members from 21 Wings/states

73 aircraft--1,407 flight hours--696 sorties

Provided 158,012 geo-tagged images

CAP liaison at NRCC as well as at state EOCs

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Geospatial Damage Assessments

Housing Task Force

Building Inspection

Response

Substantial Damage Estimation

Debris Estimation

Inundation Model to Observations

Imagery

IA Inspection (FVL)

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Applications

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How are the GDAs done?

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Part 1: The Web

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Innovation

Built within a few hours overnight

Utilized CAP and NOAA imagery

Innovation on CAP imagery upload procedures allowed images to be added within minutes or hours not days

First time this data has been easily accessibly to the public

Over 16,000 visits the first day

Check Your Home

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Innovation

MapMill provided over 6,000 volunteers

USNG 1k grid output from assessments

Partnered with Google Crisis Map, over 15 million unique visits

External partners and crowd sourcing

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