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Title: Optimizing%20Emergency%20Routes%20to%20Coal%20Mines%20in%20WV


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USING GIS TO OPTIMIZE EMERGENCY ROUTES TO COAL
MINES IN BOONE COUNTY WV
By Ana Margarita Simental
Image from USGS database http//erg.usgs.gov/isb/p
ubs/gis_poster/
2
Emergency Management Cycle
3
Geographically Located
  • Mitigation
  • Preparedness
  • Response
  • Recovery

4
What has happened over the years?
5
Response vs. Mines
  • 311 combined ambulance and fire service units
  • 21 with medical rescue services
  • 15 that offer fire and rescue service
  • 560 fire departments (government and volunteer)
  • 18 deep mine rescue teams
  • 822 active mine or mine related sites in the
    state
  • 395 of which are deep mines.

Source WVGES, WVPTD, WVDEP
6
Boone County WV
7
Methodology
  • Find and classify location models
  • identify key elements and operations
  • Develop core data structures
  • Create a working prototype

8
Software
Sources
  • WVGES
  • WVPTD
  • WVDHSEM
  • WVDEP
  • WV Tech Center
  • ER Mapper
  • MapInfo
  • MrSid
  • ArcGIS

9
The Data
10
Typical data standardization process
11
Overlay of the Road, Streets, Rivers and Streams
shapefiles
From the WVGIS Tech Center
12
Boone CountyUTM Zone 17 Quadrangles
From WVGIS Tech Center and WVPTD.
13
Boone County DOQQs
14
Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangle (Detail)
15
Entrance Point to Big Mountain No.6 Mine
16
Route from Southern WV Mine Rescue to Big
Mountain No. 6 and closest Hospital
17
Tabular dataconverted to spatial data
18
Route Results Using MapPoint.
19
QUESTIONS?
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