shrug-l: Training for HAZUS-MH for ArcGIS

Richard.Butgereit at em.myflorida.com Richard.Butgereit at em.myflorida.com
Thu May 31 12:07:18 EDT 2007


The Florida HAZUS User Group announces the following training 
opportunities.

July 9-10, 2007- Introduction to ArcGIS for HAZUS-MH Users, Naples, FL 
July 11-13, 2007- Basic HAZUS-MH, Naples, FL 

Introduction to ArcGIS for HAZUS-MH Users - 
The course provides the essential ArcGIS skills and knowledge to 
effectively use the HAZUS-MH software. The course combines lectures with 
hands-on exercises that present practical examples of how to use GIS for 
disaster mitigation and response. Course topics will include an 
introduction to GIS concepts, tools or symbolizing data, tools for 
querying and analyzing data, data management, manipulating tabular data, 
understanding coordinate systems, basic editing, spatial data adjustment, 
geocoding, and a survey of some of the advanced options provided by ArcGIS 
and the Spatial Analyst extension through the use of geodatabases and 
raster data. The course will conclude with an introduction to HAZUS-MH 
with a focus on how to apply the tools and techniques covered in the 
proceeding sections of the class. 

Basic HAZUS-MH
This course is designed to provide Federal, State and local Geographic 
Information Systems (GIS) specialists in emergency management with the 
skills and knowledge to use HAZUS-MH, the nationally applicable 
standardized methodology and software program that contains models for 
estimating potential losses from earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. 
HAZUS-MH uses state-of-the-art GIS software (ArcGIS) to map and display 
hazard data, and the results of damage and economic loss estimates for 
buildings and infrastructure, allowing users to estimate the impacts of 
hurricanes, floods and earthquakes to populations.

These classes are sponsored by the Florida HAZUS User Group, Collier 
County, and Florida DEM. There is no registration fee for the courses, and 
public employees may be reimbursed for lodging expenses.

For more information:
Florida HAZUS User Group - http://www.hazus.org/FLHUG
HAZUS-MH - http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/hazus
Florida DEM - http://www.floridadisaster.org/gis

Thanks,
Richard Butgereit
GIS Administrator, Florida DEM
richard.butgereit at em.myflorida.com
www.floridadisaster.org/gis
850-413-9907

P.S. We are shopping around for locations to host future HAZUS trainings 
-- do you have a GIS-capable computer training lab with 15-30 seats and 
would like to host a training? Here are our target classes and dates -- 
with no locations yet identified...if interested, please contact me 
off-list for further discussion...
E296    Introduction to ArcGIS for HAZUS-MH Users  (2 Day) 
February 25-26, 2008 
E313    Basic HAZUS-MH  (3 Day) 
February 27-29, 2008 
E170    Advanced HAZUS-MH for Hurricane (3 Day) 
March 19-21, 2008 
E179   Application of HAZUS-MH for Disaster Operations (3 Day) 
April 16-18, 2008 
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