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Steven P. French, Ph.D., AICP Georgia Institute of Technology

Building Disaster Resilient Communities Session 11: Understanding Hazards and Assessing Vulnerability. Steven P. French, Ph.D., AICP Georgia Institute of Technology. Q3 Flood Hazard Map. Estimated Intensity from a 7.0 R Magnitude Earthquake on the Hayward Fault Source: USGS.

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Steven P. French, Ph.D., AICP Georgia Institute of Technology

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  1. Building Disaster Resilient CommunitiesSession 11: Understanding Hazards and Assessing Vulnerability Steven P. French, Ph.D., AICP Georgia Institute of Technology

  2. Q3 Flood Hazard Map

  3. Estimated Intensity from a 7.0 R Magnitude Earthquake on the Hayward Fault Source: USGS

  4. Expected Ground Motion in the Mid-America PGA 0.20g 0.15g 0.10g

  5. Parcel-Level GIS Database

  6. Location of Hospitals in Mid-America

  7. What is GIS? A system of hardware and software that links mapped objects to attribute information that describes them and provides tools to store retrieve and manipulate both types of data.

  8. What is GIS? GIS Mapping/ Spatial Analysis Relational Database Essentially, a map tied to a database

  9. Combining Multiple Data Layers

  10. Distributed GIS - Typical City Police Planning Building Inspection GIS Fire Public Works Elections Tax Assessor

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