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USING GIS TO OPTIMIZE EMERGENCY ROUTES TO COAL MINES IN BOONE COUNTY WV. By Ana Margarita Simental. Image from USGS database http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/. Emergency Management Cycle . Geographically Located. Mitigation Preparedness Response Recovery.

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

  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. Sources Software • ER Mapper • MapInfo • MrSid • ArcGIS • 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 CountyUTM 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 dataconverted to spatial data

  18. Route Results Using MapPoint.

  19. QUESTIONS?

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