1. IMPLEMENTING CONSISTENT WORKFLOWS FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT ACROSS LOCAL/STATE/FEDERAL AGENCIES
FEMA’s Current and Future State of Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA) and Geospatial Damage Assessment Processes
2017 National Geospatial Preparedness Summit
August 8th, 2017
Mick Brierley, FEMA Recovery GIS

2. FEMA’S CURRENT AND FUTURE STATE FOR PDA
UPDATE ON TOOLS, PROCESS, AND ACCESS

3. FEMA’S CURRENT AND FUTURE STATE FOR PDA
UPDATE ON TOOLS, PROCESS, AND ACCESS FOR PRELIMINARY DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS
The FEMA Recovery Directorate is developing a broad-based damage assessment process that embraces all levels of emergency management and empowers them with the information and tools necessary to collect, verify, and validate PDAs consistently.
PDA TOOL UPDATES:
Currently, the PDA team from FEMA Recovery are working to develop technology solutions that promote consistency in data collection between PDAs in a PDA pilot project
By supporting the procedures outlined in the Damage Assessment Operations Manual for Joint PDAs and validation, these PDAs are being collected utilizing the FEMA Survey 123 Form (ESRI)
Alongside the Survey 123 Form, two products have also been produced for PDA’s: the Smart Form (XLS) and the Data Schema (both for SLTT partners whom do/do not have ESRI accounts)
Additionally, a PDA Dashboard is in development which will allow for the aggregation of the Damage Assessment data collected and export reports commonly needed to complete a Regional Administrator’s Validation and Recommendation (RVAR)
To date, the FEMA PDA Survey 123 Form has been tested in the following states: Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, New York, California, Nevada, Oklahoma, Michigan, and others
The PDA Survey 123 Form is currently being tested side by side with traditional methods. By the end of the month the form may be ready to do a standalone test
RECOVERY REPORTING AND ANALYTICS DIVISION
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4. FEMA RECOVERY USE OF GEOSPATIAL DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS
DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS, PAST AND FUTURE

5. FEMA RECOVERY USE OF GEOSPATIAL DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS
HOW GEOSPATIAL DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS SUPPORT RECOVERY EFFORTS – PAST AND FUTURE
How have geospatial damage assessments been used to support recovery efforts for prior disasters?
Structure by structure assessments – Affected, Minor, Major, Destroyed
Aggregated to multiple geometries – county, 1KM, 5KM, 10KM USNG
Used to support declaration decision
Supports field operations – DSA, IA Inspections, etc.
Compared to IA applicant density
Compared to NFIP data in flooding events
Inaccessible analysis (transportation outages, flooding)
DR-4277-LA – modeled depth grid for flooding was used to determine IA applicants experiencing a specific depth of water to get rental assistance
What is the future vision for using geospatial damage assessments to support recovery?
Continuing structure-based assessments to include modeled and observed analysis to support IHP
Additional focus on Inspections criteria to support expedited payment to IA applicants
May adjust the damage classifications to account for uninhabitable (damage or inaccessible) and destroyed
These categories have most potential to lead to expedited payments to individuals
Validation of Debris models using geospatial damage assessments and actual debris amounts pulled from old system
RECOVERY REPORTING AND ANALYTICS DIVISION

6. RECOVERY REPORTING AND ANALYTICS DIVISION

7. RECOVERY REPORTING AND ANALYTICS DIVISION

8. RECOVERY REPORTING AND ANALYTICS DIVISION