Abstract

GIS Modeling Natural Disasters with Operational Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale
Track: Disaster and Emergency Management
Authors: Daniel Shands

Combining ArcGIS and Cameo to provide Municipal government the ability to predict economic impact through the modeling and simulation of snowfall in the Northeastern United States. Utilizing GIS modeling to estimate the economic and infrastructure impacts to a municipality, this application can be used in post disaster assesment for FEMA as well as used in modeling disaster mitigation scenerios. The application can effectively model other natural disasters including flooding and hurricanes.