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EmErgEncy managEmEnt InstItutE • 2011-2012 • catalog of coursEs
HAZUS-MH for National Flood Insurance
Program (NFIP) (E176)
This course provides in-depth instruction and
hands-on exercises that develop the skills needed
by Certified Floodplain Managers and Emergency
Planners to effectively use the HAZUS tools necessary
for modeling the impacts on communities from
riverine and coastal flooding. This course uses highly
advanced modeling based on the E172, HAZUS-MH
for Flood. The course provides sophisticated analysis
of flood modeling with respect to the needs of
local and State Certified Floodplain Managers and
Emergency Management personnel.
Selection Criteria: The audience for this course includes
State and local Floodplain Managers; GIS specialists;
Federal, State and local planners; and other
personnel responsible for flood mitigation and
response activities.
Prerequisites:
Required: E313, Basic HAZUS-MH, E172, HAZUS-MH
for Flood, and E317, Comprehensive Data Management for
HAZUS-MH.
Recommended: E190, ArcGIS for Emergency Managers.
Course Length: 4 days
CEUs: 2.8
Application of HAZUS-MH for Disaster
Operations (E179)
This course is designed to increase the level of
awareness and knowledge of Federal and State emergency
management officials of the capabilities of
HAZUS-MH, the information and analyses requirements
of key sections at the Regional Response
Coordination Center (RRCC) and Joint Field Office
(JFO), and the potential applications of HAZUS-MH
to support decisions at the RRCC, Emergency Support
Team (EST), and the JFO including hurricane disaster
operations, mitigation, Individual Assistance (IA),
and Public Assistance (PA). The course also provides
a description of the full range of potential uses of
HAZUS-MH analyses into strategies for mitigation,
IA, and PA.
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Selection Criteria: FEMA Mitigation staff, Mitigation
Disaster Reservists, and State Building Science and
GIS professionals; additionally, Federal and State officials
who have a role and responsibility in the JFO,
with priority given to mitigation, IA, and PA. The
course also targets select decisionmakers on the EST,
in the Regional Operations Center (ROC), and the
State Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
Course Length: 4 days
CEUs: 2.8
ArcGIS for Emergency Managers (E190)
This hands-on course is designed to empower emergency
managers, planners, engineers, public safety
professionals, and others with the skills needed to
visualize, query, and analyze information related
to disaster mitigation, response, recovery, and risk
management using ArcGIS, the application on which
HAZUS-MH is based.
The course provides a solid foundation of basic
skills for new ArcGIS users as well as an exploration
of the many powerful tools for managing, visualizing,
and analyzing information that ArcGIS and
its many extensions make available. The first day’s
topics include spatial data concepts; symbolizing
information; designing maps, charts, and reports
using ArcGIS; and techniques for constructing both
spatial and attribute-related queries. The second day
explores creation and manipulation of tabular as well
as geographic data, understanding and managing
coordinate systems, and working with Arc Catalog.
The third day provides instruction on how to adjust
scanned imagery and other data that is not georeferenced
so that it can be included in a GIS project
by locating it properly in space. It also develops the
skills required to geocode addresses of critical facilities,
homes, or other structures so that they can be
mapped and analyzed. In addition, it surveys the
capabilities of geodatabases and explores the Spatial
Analyst extension. That extension is required by
HAZUS-MH for flood modeling, but it can also be
used for a significant range of other tasks including
visualization of terrain data, modeling of population
movements, and much more. The final day of
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