Channel Islands Regional Geographic Information Systems Collaborative

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Channel Islands Regional Geographic Information
Systems Collaborative

• A report on the March 2 meeting for Disaster
  Preparedness.
• Paul Van Zuyle
• City of Thousand Oaks

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What CIRGIS is

• A regional group of GIS users who want to share
  data
• Federal, State, local and private agencies and
  individuals who have signed a MOA
• A Regional Council of the State GIS Council

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What CIRGIS does

• Create metadata for members with grant funding
  from the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
• Educate members about GIS data
• Provide a face-to-face meeting for a diverse
  group of GIS professionals

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Members and participants include

• Airphoto USA
• California Coastal Commission
• California State Lands Commission
• Central Coast Joint Data Committee
• Channel Islands National Park
• City of Camarillo
• City of Fillmore
• City of Oxnard
• City of San Buenaventura
• City of Santa Barbara
• City of Simi Valley
• City of Thousand Oaks
• County of Ventura
• County of Santa Barbara

• Conception Coast Project
• Friends of the Santa Clara River
• Fruit Grower's Laboratory (FGL)
• MNS Engineering
• NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
• Ojai Valley Land Conservancy
• Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
• Southern California Association of Governments
• US Fish Wildlife Service
• US Geological Survey
• Ventura College
• West Coast Environmental

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Emergency response presentations

• John Kelly, San Luis Obispo County Planning Dept.
• Described how GIS was used after the San Simeon
  earthquake.
• Not integrated into disaster planning
• Databases designed after the incident, not
  beforehand

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• Alfie Blanch, State OES
• Described CaSIL, FRAP, GeoMAC and FIRESCOPE
• Needs to know who GIS personnel are
• Needs local data on
• Roads
• Buildings
• Parcels
• Hydrology

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• Tim Craig, ESRI, described GIS use
• during San Diego firestorms
• Described Mountain Area Safety Task Force (MAST)
  data collaborative, and SanGIS
• Important layers are

Transportation Layers Parcels Land
Use Imagery DEM Vegetation / CDF Fuel Type /
CDF Fire Threat Roadblock Locations Evacuation
Plans Helipad Locations
Communications Facilities Political School
Boundaries Water Power Lines Fire Station
locations / Jurisdictions Land
Ownership Contours Census / Demographic
Data Soils Hydro Layers (streams
lakes) Hospital Locations
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• Dawn Robbins, Ventura County GIO
• Described GIS layers requested by USGS for
  homeland security, and the National Map
• Discussed potential funding opportunities for
  layer development and imagery acquisition that
  benefit homeland security

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CIRGIS preliminary layer list for disaster
response

• Transportation infrastructure
• Roads
• Name, type, address ranges, lanes
• Bridges
• Rail
• Airports
• Seaports and harbors

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• Structures
• Hazardous materials, use
• Structure type (I.e. unreinforced masonry)
• Address
• Imagery
• Want best of these parameters
• Resolution (prefer lt 30 cm pixels)
• Currency (prefer lt 2 years old)
• Locational accuracy (prefer lt 3 meters)

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• Jurisdictional boundaries
• City limits
• County boundaries
• State borders
• National borders
• Special districts
• Fire, water, police, school, etc.

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• Hydrology
• Streams
• Lakes/reservoirs
• Flood Plain
• Dam Inundation areas
• Flood Control facilities

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• Elevation
• Contours
• Intervals appropriate for local terrain
• Raster or DEM
• 10 meter horizontal resolution
• Precalculated slope and aspect
• Hillshade image

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• Geology
• Faults
• Liquefaction susceptibility
• Landslide Susceptibility
• Soil, beach or bottom type
• Vegetation
• Fuel load type
• Landcover density (see CDF layer)

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• Cadastre
• Parcels
• Assessors parcel number
• Situs address
• Owners name
• Site use (code)
• Census data
• Geographies from MSAs to blocks
• Attributes such as age and ability to speak
  English

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• At-risk receptors
• Medical facilities
• Hospitals
• Nursing facilities
• Convalescent homes, etc.
• Schools
• Public
• Private
• Universities and Colleges
• Preschools and day care, etc.

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• Utilities
• Water
• Wastewater
• Electric
• Gas
• Communications
• Telephone
• Cable TV
• Wireless
• Pipelines
• Oil, etc.
• Wells
• Water
• Petroleum

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• Meteorology
• Key Facilities
• Parks
• Military
• Government
• Police Stations
• Fire Stations
• Gas Stations
• With diesel
• Landfills
• Shelters
• i.e. Red Cross

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• Contact list
• Listed as the most important item by
• presenters!

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To Do

• Refine list
• Individual inventory by membersuse the metadata
  catalog!
• Distribution
• Many difficult discussions ahead, including
  method, ownership, privacy and security