The document discusses using geographic information systems (GIS) and map layers to conduct risk assessments and improve situational awareness for multi-agency coastal hazard response. It outlines activities for a workshop including discussing data layers for risk assessment, emulating a sea level rise event, and an exercise where groups generate alert areas and consider hazard and census data, as well as emergency communications coverage. The goal is to adopt techniques from tools like Sahana CRMT to better prepare communities through mapping and information sharing.

1. CAP Alert Area Templates through
Risk Assessments
Nuwan Waidyanatha
Director - Sahana Software Foundation
nuwan[AT]sahanafoundation[DOT]org
http://www.lirneasia.net/profiles/nuwan-waidyanatha
Mobile: +94773710394 (Int'l Roaming) +8613888446352 (cn)
CAP on a Map Kickoff Workshop – Improving Institutional Responsiveness to
Coastal Hazards through Multi Agency Situational Awareness
2015 May 19
Amihan Conference Room, PAGASA, Manila, Philippines

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Outline
❑ Map layers for risk assessment
❑ Discussion of the data layers
❑ Common activities
❑ Group exercise

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4. Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Maps and more …
Much faster to
understand data

5. Adopting from Sahana CRMT
 Community Resilience Mapping Tool provides
coalition members with the opportunity to create
maps of their neighborhoods that can be overlaid
 Help make communities better prepared with
good information about their situation
 System brings together
 2010 Census Data,
 2011 American Community Survey data,
 USGS and California Geological Survey Hazards
data,
 FEMA flood zone data,
 70,000 points of interest within LA County:
schools, churches, health facilities, government
offices, municipal services, social services
agencies, arts and recreation facilities

6. Emulating a 2M Sea Level Rise Event

7. Affects of Alert Area Template
Pamono landslide hazard map
Save the alert polygon in
CAP_area_template GIS
layer
Use those template names as
a separate attribute to auto
fill the <areaDesc>,
<geocodes>, <polygon>

8. Coverage of emergency communications networks
Coverage signal
strength also an
indication of
population densities
How do you address
the uncovered
areas; especially the
recreational areas
that don't have
phone signal?

9. Emergency Telecommunications Availability
Early Warning Networks
Stakeholders: .
Incident management:
Stakeholders

10. Exercise instructions
1) Form four (4) groups based on less to most technical/domain
2) access the software through
your browser: http://cap.aidiq.com/eden/gis/index
3) Login not required
4) Zoom in on West Coast USA
5) Visualize vulnerable populations:
- Hazards ---> Sea Level Rise
- Census data ---> Age 67-79 and Disabled

11. Exercise – generating an alert area
1) Who are your working-group and what are the organizations
part of the working group?
2) What are your geographical boundaries and area descriptions?
3) Consider a hazard and determine the availability of necessary
hazard specific data? If not available how would you source it?
4) What census data will you require? If it is available who would
have it? If not available how would you source it?
5) Given an example of a hazard specific vulnerable population
and the resilience factor you are interested in?
6) How is done in your country now?