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Track: Emergency Management and Public Safety
Michael Sebhat
United States Government
2800 Cottage Way
MPGIS
Sacramento, CA 95825
Telephone: 916-979-2441
Fax: 916-979-2505
E-mail: msebhat@mpgis1.mp.usbr.gov
Tom Heizner
The Development of an ArcInfo Interface to the National Weather Service's Dam Break (DAMBRK) Model
As a major water agency responsible for many dams in the western United States, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has been mandated to develop flood inundation maps for many of its dams in the event of failure. Reclamation and local emergency management teams desire to know where inundation will occur, arrival times, and flood wave speed and depth for various scenarios. To this end, Reclamation's Mid-Pacific Region GIS Service Center (MPGIS) was tasked to design a fully integrated GIS interface to the National Weather Service's DAMBRK model. This paper discusses the methods used to integrate the ArcInfo, ARCGRID, ARCTIN, and ARCNETWORK modules to develop a robust GIS environment that inundation specialists and hydrologists find very appealing and powerful.
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