1

Richard Butgereitrichard.butgereit@em.myflorida.com Information Management Section HeadFlorida Division of Emergency Management850-413-9907

US National Grid for data aggregation and information sharing

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.

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

Florida Adopts the USNG

• FFCA adopts through 2010 Statewide Emergency Response Plan

• FDEM adopts through 2010 CEMP

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.”

US National GridBuilt 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”…

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 ArcGIS 9.x– Editor Tracker add in to ArcGIS 10.x

• USNG Training Course– http://trac.floridadisaster.org/TRAC/CourseDetailPublic?ID=192

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

USNG - Search and Rescue

USNG – Data aggregation

USNG – Data aggregation

USNG – Data aggregation

USNG – Data aggregation

Map of Clay county damage assessments

USNG – Data aggregation

USNG – Data aggregation

USNG – Data aggregation

Zip CodeNot effective…• Zip codes cross jurisdictional boundaries (counties)• No contiguous

Map of statewide IA applicants

USNG – Data aggregation

Map of Clay county damage assessments and IA applications

USNG – Data aggregation

Map of Clay county damage assessments and IA applications

USNG – Data aggregation

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.

USNG – Data deconflictionOld model – 13 feature classes spread across 4 feature datasets, representing emergency management branches

Emergency Services Human Services Operations Branch Infrastructure Branch

USNG – Data deconflictionNew model –

• 1 feature class – location fieldsname, address, city, ziplat/long, USNGflood, storm surge, evac zone

• 10+ lookup tables – detailed dataas close as possible to source data

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.

Getting Missions on the Map

• 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

USNG – Data deconfliction

– insert some graphic here

USNG – Data deconfliction

Temporary Feature Class

1.Strip source data down to locational fields , Unique ID, and USNG

2. Merge into temporary feature class, including calculating USNG for each feature

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

5. For remaining features, add master site id field, join to master site by USNG, and calculate .

6. For each facility type, join back to source data and export to table

Master Site Feature Class

Look Up Tables

7. Build relationship classes between master site and look up s

ConclusionUS 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.