Nordic Geospatial Blog –


August 27, 2011

Resources – Hurricane #Irene for East Coast, NYC, DC. etc.

The New York City Office of Emergency Management has released a Crowdmap with the help of the Ushahidi team:

http://nycsevereweather.crowdmap.com

http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/nycsevereweather/weather_home.shtml

To submit a formal service request to NYC, use 311. For emergency assistance, call 911. For more information about how the City is responding to the storm, visit:
http://www.nyc.gov/severeweather

Via Direct Relief International -
https://maps.directrelief.org/USA/hpp/index.html

Information links:
National Weather Service http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
New York City hurricane evacuation zone maps http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/get_prepared/prepared_partnerstoolkit.shtml
US Chamber Business and Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) Help Desk https://www.facebook.com/pages/Disaster-Help-Desk-US-Chamber-BCLC/256578991038630
Red Cross live open shelter information at http://app.redcross.org/nss-app/.

Available as an app for the iphone/ipad/ipod at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/american-red-cross-shelter/id419258261?mt=8

State and local government links:

New York City OEM http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/home/home.shtml
North Carolina Division of Emergency Management http://www.nccrimecontrol.org/index2.cfm?a=000003,000010,002050,002063
Virginia Dept. of Emergency Management http://www.vaemergency.com/
Maryland Emergency Management Agency http://www.mema.state.md.us/MEMA2/index.html
New Jersey OEM http://www.ready.nj.gov/
New York State OEM http://www.dhses.ny.gov/

Info4Disasters.org launched it’s new website this past week. A virtual EOC for Hurricane Irene was created last night for sharing information with the public & colleagues.

http://info4disasters.org/hurricane-eoc/irene/

Ushahidi instance

http://irene.tethr.org

Google Earth Outreach http://earth.google.com/outreach
Google Crisis Response, Google.org http://www.google.org

USNG GeoPDF download Flex viewer up and running at

http://greatriver.deltastate.edu/IreneUSNG/index.html

access the download folder at
http://mississippi.deltastate.edu/data/USNG_Atlases

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/surge_images.asp

Army Corps of Engineers Districts have done Hurricane Storm Surge data/maps for their Districts.
Examples are:

http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/nhp/HES/WashingtonDCandNOVA/Current2009StormSurgeMapping/Report/DC&NOVA-StormSurgeMap-Main.pdf

http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/nhp/HES/MD/MarylandWesternShore/Current2006HES/PDFsofInundationMaps/Anne_Arundel_County-StormSurgeMap.pdf

October 27, 2010

News & Tools – Indonesia Volcano – Mt. Merapi & Tsunami – Mentawai Islands

UPDATE 20101030
PDC’s Online SE Asia Disaster Map – OSO-Map
http://www.pdc.org/osamap/html/osamap-init.jsp

UPDATE 20101029
Google KML file of Mt Merapi Evacuation centers – many thanks to Gayatri Indah Marliyani (gayatri_indah@yahoo.com – SDSU VizLab & InRelief assoc.)
http://www.nordicgeospatial.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/20101027_MerapiEvacuationShelter.kml

Latest WHO Indonesia Situation Report – very comprehensive
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EGUA-8ANRWT/$File/full_report.pdf

Mentawai Islands (off Padang, Sumatra) Tsunami Resources – English
US Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Maui HI) Interactive Map
http://www.pdc.org/atlas/

& PDF Map
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/fullmaps_sa.nsf/luFullMap/EF87046CDA59D1F9852577C9004F2593/$File/map.pdf?OpenElement

US NASA Map -
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=46607&src=nhrss

Donate to SurfAid -
http://www.surfaidinternational.org/you-can-help/donate.html

Mt. Merapi Volcano -
US State Dept. HIU Map –
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/fullmaps_sa.nsf/luFullMap/25AB253F90228528852577C9006E493D/$File/map.pdf?OpenElement

Resources in Bahasa Indonesian -
http://www.slemankab.go.id/peta-sarpras-2010.slm/peta-sarpras
Note: ‘EWS awan panas’ is simply abbreviation of Early Warning System of hot clouds (pyroclastic flow, sometime referred to as ‘Merapi type nuee ardente’), while ‘EWS Lahar Dingin’ means the location of tool for detect cold lahar (volcanic debris flow).

Evac Shelter Info
http://merapi.combine.or.id/baca/1244/info-barak-pengungsian.html

Google Docs Datasheet
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AmZHu0Os76fNdEs5MkZYdm9lYVJhMjNzUXpYcjN2emc&hl=en&gid=1

Video
http://video.tvone.co.id/arsip/view/45073/2010/10/26/pasca_gempa_72_sr_mentawai_diterjang_tsunami/

April 26, 2006 Merapi Volcano, Java

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Merapi

August 22, 2010

Tools & Data – Pacific Disaster Center mobile & LA County GeoData Portal

#PDC (Maui, HI) releases Disaster Aware mobile application for iPad and #iPhone users
http://www.pdc.org/PDCNewsWebArticles/2010/iTunes/disaster_alert.htm

Los Angeles County has a new geo data portal with RSS feeds to let you know when data sets are updated for this 4,700 sq. mile jurisdiction with 10 million inhabitants and 88 cities!
http://egis3.lacounty.gov/dataportal/