CAP Alert Area Templates through Risk Assessments

Nuwan WaidyanathaDirector - Sahana Software Foundation

nuwan[AT]sahanafoundation[DOT]org

http://www.lirneasia.net/profiles/nuwan-waidyanathaMobile: +94773710394 (Int'l Roaming) +8613888446352 (cn)

CAP on a Map Kickoff Workshop – Improving Institutional Responsiveness to Coastal Hazards through Multi Agency Situational Awareness

2015 May 19

Amihan Conference Room, PAGASA, Manila, Philippines

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Outline

❑ Map layers for risk assessment❑ Discussion of the data layers❑ Common activities❑ Group exercise

Purpose of the multiple <INFO>

and <AREA>

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<Alert>qualifiers

Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

Maps and more …Much faster to understand data

Adopting from Sahana CRMT

Community Resilience Mapping Tool provides coalition members with the opportunity to create maps of their neighborhoods that can be overlaid

Help make communities better prepared with good information about their situation

System brings together 2010 Census Data, 2011 American Community Survey data, USGS and California Geological Survey Hazards

data, FEMA flood zone data, 70,000 points of interest within LA County:

schools, churches, health facilities, government offices, municipal services, social services agencies, arts and recreation facilities

Emulating a 2M Sea Level Rise Event

Affects of Alert Area Template

Pamono landslide hazard map

Save the alert polygon in CAP_area_template GIS layer

Use those template names as a separate attribute to auto fill the <areaDesc>, <geocodes>, <polygon>

Coverage of emergency communications networks

Coverage signal strength also an indication of population densities

How do you address the uncovered areas; especially the recreational areas that don't have phone signal?

Emergency Telecommunications Availability

Early Warning NetworksStakeholders: .

Incident management:Stakeholders

Exercise instructions

1) Form four (4) groups based on less to most technical/domain

2) access the software through your browser: http://cap.aidiq.com/eden/gis/index

3) Login not required

4) Zoom in on West Coast USA

5) Visualize vulnerable populations: - Hazards ---> Sea Level Rise - Census data ---> Age 67-79 and Disabled

Exercise – generating an alert area

1) Who are your working-group and what are the organizations part of the working group?

2) What are your geographical boundaries and area descriptions?

3) Consider a hazard and determine the availability of necessary hazard specific data? If not available how would you source it?

4) What census data will you require? If it is available who would have it? If not available how would you source it?

5) Given an example of a hazard specific vulnerable population and the resilience factor you are interested in?

6) How is done in your country now?