Sarah Falzarano
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District, Ft. Shafter, HI
GIS for Environmental, Community and Public Health
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
During World War II, the military used the Former Waikoloa Maneuver Area on the island of Hawai‘i as a training camp and artillery range. The military ceased activities and vacated the 100,000 acre parcel in 1946 and performed a cleanup. Another cleanup was conducted in 1954, and the current effort was triggered by the fact that munitions and explosives are continuing to be discovered. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the Executive Agent for the Formerly Used Defense Sites Program, and is responsible for the current cleanup effort. We are managing the large effort through a GIS database to keep track of the number and locations of munitions found, areas cleared, right-of-entries targeted, and more. While over 17,000 acres have been cleared, clearance continues to improve public safety.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Mapping Motor Vehicle Crashes in Hawaii: GIS applications for injury prevention
Dan Galanis
Hawaii Department of Health, Honolulu, HI
GIS for Environmental, Community and Public Health
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
GIS has been a helpful tool for the Hawaii Department of Health Injury Prevention Program's (IPP's) efforts to prevent injuries from motor vehicle crashes in Hawaii. IPP has a long-standing prevention partnership with the North Hawaii Outcomes Project to publicize maps of fatal crashes in Hawaii County and to mitigate high risk road environments. Electronic patient care data from EMS reports has also been used for the prevention of pedestrian injuries on the island of Oahu. Incident maps have helped the planning and advocacy efforts of community organizations and county and state agencies.
Hawaii Department of Health, Honolulu, HI
GIS for Environmental, Community and Public Health
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
GIS has been a helpful tool for the Hawaii Department of Health Injury Prevention Program's (IPP's) efforts to prevent injuries from motor vehicle crashes in Hawaii. IPP has a long-standing prevention partnership with the North Hawaii Outcomes Project to publicize maps of fatal crashes in Hawaii County and to mitigate high risk road environments. Electronic patient care data from EMS reports has also been used for the prevention of pedestrian injuries on the island of Oahu. Incident maps have helped the planning and advocacy efforts of community organizations and county and state agencies.
Disaster Management and Emergency Response Special Interest Group (SIG)
All Invited
Lunchtime Special Interest Group Meeting
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - noon to 1:30 pm
Join the Disaster Management and Emergency Response SIG lunch group for a free-flowing discussion of GIS and public safety, disaster management, emergency response and more.
Lunchtime Special Interest Group Meeting
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - noon to 1:30 pm
Join the Disaster Management and Emergency Response SIG lunch group for a free-flowing discussion of GIS and public safety, disaster management, emergency response and more.
An Overview of the Hawaii NFIP Mobile Inspection Tool
Steven Lettau
The Onyx Group, Honolulu, HI
Mobile GIS
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
The State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) has developed a tool for the collection of National Flood Insurance (NFIP) inspection data. This tool enables data to be collected on a mobile device for inclusion into a standard database. Once on the database, the inspection data is used for analysis and reporting. The tool has several GIS capabilities built in, including the ability to find your location, view and analyze a map, and retrieve attribute data. It is designed to be user friendly and intuitive for inspectors. An overview of the business process, workflow and tool capabilities and features will be presented.
The Onyx Group, Honolulu, HI
Mobile GIS
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
The State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) has developed a tool for the collection of National Flood Insurance (NFIP) inspection data. This tool enables data to be collected on a mobile device for inclusion into a standard database. Once on the database, the inspection data is used for analysis and reporting. The tool has several GIS capabilities built in, including the ability to find your location, view and analyze a map, and retrieve attribute data. It is designed to be user friendly and intuitive for inspectors. An overview of the business process, workflow and tool capabilities and features will be presented.
The Honolulu Unified Assessment (HONUA) system - A Situational Awareness Viewer for Emergency Management
Jon Hodge
Susan Vogt
City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Disaster Management and Emergency Response III
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Honolulu faces a number of significant emergency management events each year: floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, fires - and less frequently, large special events, such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Consequently, a great deal of thought and effort has gone into planning and emergency response preparedness. The City was an early adopter of GIS and has developed a comprehensive GIS for the city to support emergency operations, including the development of critical GIS layers, such as evacuation zones, flood zones, and critical infrastructure locations.
Traditionally, the standard operating procedures for City emergency managers included limited utilization of GIS tools and technology. The City and County of Honolulu Department of Emergency Management (DEM) received a grant for Geospatial Technology Enhancements (GTE) to improve emergency planning, response, and operations to more fully leverage existing City GIS data and systems. The project began in June of 2010. The goal was to install an advanced situational awareness viewer technology that supports the planning activities and emergency response operations that occur in the DEM Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The outcome was the deployment of the Honolulu Unified Assessment (HONUA) system. The system was put to the test during the recent APEC summit.
Susan Vogt
City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Disaster Management and Emergency Response III
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Honolulu faces a number of significant emergency management events each year: floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, fires - and less frequently, large special events, such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Consequently, a great deal of thought and effort has gone into planning and emergency response preparedness. The City was an early adopter of GIS and has developed a comprehensive GIS for the city to support emergency operations, including the development of critical GIS layers, such as evacuation zones, flood zones, and critical infrastructure locations.
Traditionally, the standard operating procedures for City emergency managers included limited utilization of GIS tools and technology. The City and County of Honolulu Department of Emergency Management (DEM) received a grant for Geospatial Technology Enhancements (GTE) to improve emergency planning, response, and operations to more fully leverage existing City GIS data and systems. The project began in June of 2010. The goal was to install an advanced situational awareness viewer technology that supports the planning activities and emergency response operations that occur in the DEM Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The outcome was the deployment of the Honolulu Unified Assessment (HONUA) system. The system was put to the test during the recent APEC summit.
MERCI (Mobile Emergency Response and Command Interface): A Mobile Situational Awareness System for Emergency and Disaster Response
David Takeyama
Andrew Mizon
Oceanit, Honolulu, HI
Disaster Management and Emergency Response III
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Events immediately following a natural disaster are often chaotic and frenzied as time and resources need to be quickly allocated and dispatched to areas hit the hardest. An assessment of damage needs to be gathered to accurately document the magnitude and impact of an event, as well as to verify if supplemental assistance is required. Oceanit's MERCI (Mobile Emergency Response and Command Interface) system is a platform technology developed for the Hawaii State Civil Defense that enables two-way communication of information so that better decision-making can take place after a disaster.
MERCI includes a mobile data collection app enabling responders to collect multiple data types (text, photo, video, GPS) using a mobile handheld device such as an iPhone or iPad2. FEMA-based damage assessment forms can be completed in the field while emergency managers back at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) have a geospatial view with a real-time dollar value of total damage. Important points of interest (POI's) such as historical events can be pushed to the mobile device's map view to provide the early responder with field-level situational awareness so that they are not going into a new operational environment ‘blind.' Information is securely uploaded to the EOC where it can be analyzed, collated, and queried, enabling decision-makers to quickly identify the worst affected areas, damage trends, disruptions in public services, and to prioritize recovery activities.
Andrew Mizon
Oceanit, Honolulu, HI
Disaster Management and Emergency Response III
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Events immediately following a natural disaster are often chaotic and frenzied as time and resources need to be quickly allocated and dispatched to areas hit the hardest. An assessment of damage needs to be gathered to accurately document the magnitude and impact of an event, as well as to verify if supplemental assistance is required. Oceanit's MERCI (Mobile Emergency Response and Command Interface) system is a platform technology developed for the Hawaii State Civil Defense that enables two-way communication of information so that better decision-making can take place after a disaster.
MERCI includes a mobile data collection app enabling responders to collect multiple data types (text, photo, video, GPS) using a mobile handheld device such as an iPhone or iPad2. FEMA-based damage assessment forms can be completed in the field while emergency managers back at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) have a geospatial view with a real-time dollar value of total damage. Important points of interest (POI's) such as historical events can be pushed to the mobile device's map view to provide the early responder with field-level situational awareness so that they are not going into a new operational environment ‘blind.' Information is securely uploaded to the EOC where it can be analyzed, collated, and queried, enabling decision-makers to quickly identify the worst affected areas, damage trends, disruptions in public services, and to prioritize recovery activities.
Using a Map Application Template in a GIS Enterprise Environment
John Higuchi
BEI Consultants, Honolulu, HI
Jon Hodge
City & County of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Application Development
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm
Problem: How do you deliver streamlined and efficient map services on a limited GIS development budget?
Approach: Reuse a single map application template that has common elements but delivers focused information and functionality tailored to each stakeholder. The approach involved keeping the user interface simple-to-use to increase adoption rates - think cellphone interface not a 747 instrumentation panel. This significantly reduces the development time and cost. A reusable map template can be configured & implemented under a month.
Solution: Four (4) separate mapping applications: Parcel, Parks, Refuse Collection Sites, and Public Safety were developed using ESRI ArcGIS Server and the Silverlight platform. They all use a common template, share the same basemaps and deliver focused information in a homogenous user-friendly format.
Conclusion: In an enterprise environment, a map application template can be used successfully to solve all 4 stakeholders within budget while maintaining feature rich functionality and meeting various users' objectives. Development time was significantly reduced from 6 - 8 months to 1 - 2 months which allowed the City to offer services economically and sooner rather than later. Since 2009, the 4 maps in the ‘Fastmaps' series are all publicly available to Internet users along with the original ‘Advanced' map.
BEI Consultants, Honolulu, HI
Jon Hodge
City & County of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Application Development
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm
Problem: How do you deliver streamlined and efficient map services on a limited GIS development budget?
Approach: Reuse a single map application template that has common elements but delivers focused information and functionality tailored to each stakeholder. The approach involved keeping the user interface simple-to-use to increase adoption rates - think cellphone interface not a 747 instrumentation panel. This significantly reduces the development time and cost. A reusable map template can be configured & implemented under a month.
Solution: Four (4) separate mapping applications: Parcel, Parks, Refuse Collection Sites, and Public Safety were developed using ESRI ArcGIS Server and the Silverlight platform. They all use a common template, share the same basemaps and deliver focused information in a homogenous user-friendly format.
Conclusion: In an enterprise environment, a map application template can be used successfully to solve all 4 stakeholders within budget while maintaining feature rich functionality and meeting various users' objectives. Development time was significantly reduced from 6 - 8 months to 1 - 2 months which allowed the City to offer services economically and sooner rather than later. Since 2009, the 4 maps in the ‘Fastmaps' series are all publicly available to Internet users along with the original ‘Advanced' map.
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