Richard Butgereit richard.butgereit@em.myflorida.com Information Management Section Head

1. US National Grid for data aggregation and information sharing Richard Butgereit richard.butgereit@em.myflorida.com Information Management Section Head Florida Division of Emergency Management 850-413-9907

2. US National Grid The USNG is a point reference system of grid references that provides a nationally consistent language of location in a user friendly format.

3. National Standards • National Search and Rescue Committee – specifies US National Grid as primary system for ground operations • Federal Geographic Data Committee – US National Grid Standard since 2001 • FEMA - Established a standard for operational maps using the National Grid

4. Florida Adopts the USNG • FFCA adopts through 2010 Statewide Emergency Response Plan • FDEM adopts through 2010 CEMP

5. Florida CEMP “The State of Florida has adopted the use of the U.S. National Grid (USNG) during response and recovery efforts which allows for both point and area referencing.”

6. US National Grid Built to create “a more interoperable environment for developing location-based services within the United State and to increase the interoperability of location services appliances with printed map products”…

7. Support for USNG • Integration into other applications • FDEM’s GATOR • FDEM’s Incident Mapper • FDEM’s State Watch Office Incident Tracker • EM Constellation • RECON Reports • Support for GIS Staff - http://www.floridadisaster.org/gis/usng • tools and instructions for GIS staff • map book templates • downloadable shapefiles from FGDL • Editor Tracker extension to ArcGIS9.x • Editor Tracker add in to ArcGIS 10.x • USNG Training Course • http://trac.floridadisaster.org/TRAC/CourseDetailPublic?ID=192

8. … use of the National Grid has been widely adopted within emergency management for use in preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.

9. USNG - Search and Rescue

10. USNG – Data aggregation

11. USNG – Data aggregation

12. USNG – Data aggregation

13. USNG – Data aggregation

14. USNG – Data aggregation Map of Clay county damage assessments

15. USNG – Data aggregation

16. USNG – Data aggregation

17. Zip Code Not effective… • Zip codes cross jurisdictional boundaries (counties) • No contiguous

18. USNG – Data aggregation Map of statewide IA applicants

19. USNG – Data aggregation Map of Clay county damage assessments and IA applications

20. USNG – Data aggregation Map of Clay county damage assessments and IA applications

21. USNG – Data deconfliction • Critical Facility - structures from which essential services and functions for victim survival, continuation of public safety actions, and disaster recovery are performed or provided.

22. USNG – Data deconfliction • Old model – • 13 feature classes spread across 4 feature datasets, representing emergency management branches • Emergency Services • Human Services • Operations Branch • Infrastructure Branch

23. USNG – Data deconfliction • New model – • 1 feature class – location fields • name, address, city, zip • lat/long, USNG • flood, storm surge, evac zone • 10+ lookup tables – detailed data • as close as possible to source data

24. EM Constellation • EM Constellation is the web-based information management software platform adopted by the State of Florida for emergency management. • The platform allows the State Emergency Response Team composed of county, state, federal, volunteer, and mutual aid entities to use the same operating environment when responding to and recovering from an emergency.

27. Getting Missions on the Map

31. FIRE / SEARCH & RESCUE LAW ENFORCEMENT INCIDENTS / SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY NATURAL HAZARDS POPULATION PROTECTIVE ACTIONS TECHNICAL HAZARDS ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENRS TRANSPORTATION INCIDENTS UTILITIES / INFRASTRUCTURE MILITARY EVENTS SWO Incident Tracker

33. USNG – Data deconfliction – insert some graphic here

35. USNG – Data deconfliction

37. 1.Strip source data down to locational fields , Unique ID, and USNG Master Site Feature Class 5. For remaining features, add master site id field, join to master site by USNG, and calculate . 2. Merge into temporary feature class, including calculating USNG for each feature Temporary Feature Class 6. For each facility type, join back to source data and export to table 3. Run ‘Near’ and “snap down” data as needed 4. Run frequency on USNG, add temporary field, calculate “1” for each feature you want to be “Master Site’’, export to new feature class and calculate new master site unique id Look Up Tables 7. Build relationship classes between master site and look up s

39. Conclusion US National Grid has proven a useful tool for transforming raw data into meaningful and useful information for the Florida State Emergency Response Team USNG is truly the language of location.