Abstract

The Northern Virginia Resident Damage Assessment Tool
Track: Disaster and Emergency Management
Authors: Ken Rudnicki

EMs need to know ‘how bad is bad’ after an event to make accurate decisions. To do that, they need accurate damage information. The City of Fairfax created a regional system for Northern Virginia to build a resident damage reporting tool, including a resident reporting tool (javascript api), an EM app for reports and maps (Flex API) and ArcGIS Online to manage the system, data and users. An alert tool was also built to send notifications to the ‘appropriate’ response agency of new reports.