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Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority's Master Plan Data Viewer

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Louisiana is one of the most vulnerable states for coastal land loss due to climate change and sea level rises. The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority's Master Plan Data Viewer maps the various coastal flood risks, both current and future, plus...

How Courageous Leadership Can Help a Community Through a Pandemic

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March 25, 2020 COVID-19 This article originally appeared in Governing. Last week the Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School hosted an online meeting that brought together more than 20 senior officials from America's largest cities and Professor Marc...

The Importance of Data for Forecasting and Tracking Floods

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May 22, 2019 Disaster Management On April 29th Joko Widodo, the president of Indonesia, announced that Jakarta would no longer be the seat of national government. Although a new location has yet to be named, one major consideration for the new capital...

Map Monday: Tracking Relocation and Crowdsourced Mapping during Hurricane Maria

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February 11, 2019 GIS Maps: Teralytics Mass Migration Tracker and OpenStreetMap Geographic Area: Puerto Rico Year Published: 2017 Goals: Track the mass migration flows of Puerto Ricans before, during and after Hurricane Maria (Teralytics) and provide...

Three Emerging Technologies To Improve Emergency Management

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that 2017 was the most expensive year on record for disasters in the U.S., estimating $306 billion in total damage. The FBI also reported 2017 as having the most incidents and the most people...

How to Manage the Data Flood During an Emergency

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May 30, 2018 Disaster Management There’s another type of flood to deal with in the midst of a natural disaster: a flood of information. From 311 submissions to sensors to social media, city technology teams are often inundated with needs across data...

Beyond Duck-and-Cover

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March 7, 2018 Disaster Management This article originally appeared in Government Technology Magazine. "The more we rehearse disaster, the safer we’ll be from the real thing. Life seems to work that way, doesn’t it?” This line from Don DeLillo’s novel...

Houston/Miami Harvey Rescue Site

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During Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Houston and Miami took on the responsibility of pulling together information from a variety of sources that would be useful to residents and responders during and after the storms. During Harvey, the City of Houston...

FEMA Assistance Data for TexasPost-Hurricane Harvey

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After Hurricane Harvey, community leaders working in neighborhoods like Kashmere Gardens and East Houston said they worried that low-income populations would be left behind during the recovery. A new study from the Episcopal Health Foundation seems to at...

Flooding app

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In the wake of severe flooding this summer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the city partnered with GIS mapping firm Esri to launch a series of apps designed to help cities track flooding through nearly real-time mapping of flood zones, a catalog of open...