ANNC: Geography Colloquium 4.7.00

[K. McFarland]

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		Department of Geography Colloquium

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THIS FRIDAY: 

Speaker: J. Patrick Moore, Director and Principle, Integral GIS, Inc.
Title:	 "Using GIS for Disaster Mitigation and Counter-Terrorism"
Time:    2:30 - 3:30pm on Friday
Place:   304 Smith Hall

ABSTRACT:

On April 19, 1995, the most catastrophic terrorist bombing on U.S. soil
occurred when the Alfred P. Murrah building was bombed. The bomb blast
caused the partial collapse of the nine-story Murrah building, causing 168
deaths and 759 injuries in the immediate area. In the aftermath of the
bombing, the State of Oklahoma Health Department conducted an extensive
epidemiological data gathering and analysis program. A major aspect of
this overall program has been the inclusion of an application built on
ArcView 3D Analyst, allowing epidemiologists to query, analyze, and
visualize epidemiological data gathered after the bombing. The
three-dimensional visualization afforded in 3D Analyst is giving
epidemiologists another valuable perspective on their analysis
efforts. This application, Oklahoma City Bombing Injury Study, is part of
a suite of new ArcView GIS-based tools developed as a result of the
bombing for overall disaster project management for the first responder
community and to enhance the overall level of domestic preparedness. The
purpose of the presentation will be to present the development, use, and
impacts of GIS and related extensions on disaster management and
mitigation and look ahead to those GIS tools being developed for
counter-terrorism for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.