Dates: February 6-8, 2006
Course Description: The 3 ½-day
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.
This is the last offering of E190 for Fiscal Year 2006.
Audience: This course is intended
for State and local emergency managers, GIS specialists responsible
for risk assessment activities, regional personnel responsible for
mitigation and response activities, other Federal agencies with
a need to conduct risk assessment, and State and local planners.
Course Length: Course starts Monday
at 8:30 a.m. and ends Thursday at 5:00 p.m. Buses depart from the
NETC campus Friday at 9:30 a.m.
Location: National Emergency Training
Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
CEU's: N/A
To Apply:
Complete a FEMA
Form 75-5, General Admissions Application with student signature
and signature of supervisor or sponsoring agency official. Submit
the applicationthrough the State emergency management training office
who will fax it to the National Emergency Training Center Admissions
Office at (301) 447-1658.
For further information, please refer to the course
web site at http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/EMICourses/
or contact Lillian Virgil, course manager at (301) 447-1490 or email
at lillian.virgil@dhs.gov. Applications must be received no later
than November 28, 2005.
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