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1.0 Geospatial Concept of Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

1.1 Mission Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.2 Overview 8

1.3 GeoCONOPS Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.3.1 State Authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1.3.2 Information Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1.3.3 Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

1.3.4 Civil Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

1.3.5 People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

1.3.6 Operations/Coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

1.4 Audience and Intended Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

1.5 Alignment with NIMS and NRF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

1.6 Determination of Authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.0 Geospatial Requirements and Capabilities . . . . . 19

2.1 Geospatial Mission Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.1.1 Coordination Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

2.1.2 Staf n Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

2.1.3 echno o Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

2.1.4 Geospatial Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

2.2 Geospatial Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.2.1 Authoritative Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

2.2.2 Essential Elements of Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

2.2.3 Data Dissemination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

2.3 Geospatial Production and Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

2.3.1 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

2.3.2 Deliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

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3.1 Damage Assessments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3.1.1 Ima er and Derived Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

3.1.2 Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

3.1.3 Field Data Collection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

3.2 Life-Saving Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

3.2.1 Search and Rescue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

3.2.2 Critical Medical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

3.2.3 Provision of Critical Food, Shelter, and Water . . . . . . . . . . . .37

3.3 Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

3.3.1 Public Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

3.3.2 Individual Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

3.4 Mitigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

4.0 Disaster Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

4.1 DHS National Operations Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

4.2 DHS National Infrastructure Coordinating Center . . . . . . . . . . . 48

4.3 FEMA National Response Coordination Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

4.4 FEMA Regional Response Coordination Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

4.5 FEMA Joint Field Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

4.6 FEMA Interim Operating Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

5.0 Catastrophic Disasters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

5.1 Natural Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

5.1.1 Notice Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62


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5.2 The New Madrid Earthquake Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

5.2.1 Modeled Earthquake Impacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

5.2.2 GeoCONOPS Mission Area Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

5.3 Post-Event Efforts (long-term) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

5.4 Activities Outside NMSZ Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

5.4.1 Pre-Event Emer enc Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

5.4.2 Non Earthquake Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

6.0 Mitigation & Preparedness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

6.1 Mitigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

6.1.1 Risk Anal sis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

6.1.2 Risk Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

6.1.3 Risk Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93

6.2 Preparedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Appendix A: Mission Engineering Methodology Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Appendix B: Authoritative Data Matrix . . . . . . . . . . 105

Appendix C: Civil Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Appendix D: DHS Intelligence & Analysis – Interagency Remote Sensing Coordination Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Appendix E: DHS OneView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Appendix F: Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Appendix G: Referenced Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Appendix H: Related CONOPS/SOPs . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Appendix I: Acronyms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

List of Best Practices

Best Practices - Requests for Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Best Practices - FEMA Damage Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Best Practices - Disaster Clearinghouses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Best Practices - Search and Rescue Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Best Practices - USACE Commodities Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Best Practices - FEMA Region VI Field Data Collection Tool. . . . . . . 41

Best Practices - FEMA Post Katrina Damage Assessment for Individual Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Best Practices - Advisory Base Flood Elevations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Best Practices - DHS OneView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Best Practices - HAZUS Concept of Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Best Practices - Disaster Data and Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Best Practices - Estimating Search and Rescue Requirements . . . . . . 69

Best Practices - USGS Earthquake Products & Situational Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Best Practices - Modeling Socio-Economic Vulnerability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Best Practices - ENVAS for Environmental Assessments. . . . . . . . . . . 95

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Figure 1–1: GeoCONOPS Development Phases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Figure 1–2: GeoCONOPS Community Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 1–3: State Authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Figure 1–4: Information Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Figure 1–5: Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Figure 1–6: Civil Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Figure 1–7: People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Figure 1–8: Operations/Coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Figure 1–9: Federal Response - Stafford Act Support to States . . . . . 15

Figure 3–1: Damage Assessment Maps - Nisqually Earthquake . . . . 26

Figure 3–2: TCPED Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Figure 3–3: Imagery Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Figure 3–4: Imagery-Derived Data Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Figure 4–1: Disaster Operations Reporting Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Figure 4–2: Example JFO/GIU Organizational Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Figure 4–3: Example IMAT Organizational Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Figure 5–1: Regional Ground Shaking Intensity from NMSZ Earthquake Scenario. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Figure 5–2: Total Casualties from Scenario Earthquake . . . . . . . . . . 63

Figure 5–3: Estimated Damage to General Building Stock . . . . . . . . 64

Figure 5–4: Major Damage to River Crossing Bridges in NMSZ . . . 64

Figure 5–5: Distribution of Water Outages on Day 1 in NMSZ . . . . . 64

Figure 5–6: New Madrid Geospatial Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Figure 5–7: New Madrid Geospatial Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Figure 5–8: Geospatial Timeline – Life-Saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

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Figure 5–9: Geospatial Timeline – Damage Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Figure 5–10: Geospatial Timeline – Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Figure 6–1: Emergency Management Lifecycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Figure A–1: Geospatial CONOPS Community Model . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Figure C–1: Request For Assistance Process Decision Matrix . . . . . 148

Figure E–1: DHS OneView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154


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Table 2–2: Federal Geospatial Teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Table 3–1: Authoritative Data - Damage Assessment Mission - Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Table 3–2: Authoritative Data - Damage Assessment Mission - Modeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Table 3–3: Authoritative Data - Damage Assessment Mission - Ground Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Table 3–4: Authoritative Data - Life-Saving Mission - SAR. . . . . . . . 36

Table 3–5: Authoritative Data - Life-Saving Mission - Critical Medical Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Table 3–6: Authoritative Data – Critical Food Shelter and Water. . . 38

Table 3–7: Authoritative Data - Recovery Mission - Public Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Table 3–8: Authoritative Data - Recovery Mission - Individual Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Table 3–9: Authoritative Data - Recovery Mission - Mitigation. . . . . 43

Table 4–1: Authoritative Data - Disaster Operations - NOC . . . . . . . 46

Table 4–2: Authoritative Data - Disaster Operations - NICC. . . . . . . 50

Table 4–3: Authoritative Data - Disaster Operations - NRCC . . . . . . 51

Table 4–4: Authoritative Data - Disaster Operations - RRCC . . . . . . 54

Table 4–5: Authoritative Data - Disaster Operations - JFO . . . . . . . . 57

Table 5–1: Estimate of “At Risk” and Shelter Seeking Populations: NMSZ Scenario Earthquake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Table 5–2: Estimated Damage to Essential Facilities in the NMSZ . . 64

Table 5–3: Sample Life-Saving EEIs by ESF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Table 5–4: Sample Damage Assessment EEIs by ESF. . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Table 5–5: Sample Recovery EEIs by ESF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Table 5–6: Event-Speci c Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Table 6–1: Authoritative Data – FEMA HAZUS Program . . . . . . . . . 86

Table 6–2: Authoritative Data – FEMA Map Modernization Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Table 6–3: Authoritative Data – FEMA Mitigation Planning. . . . . . . 88

Table 6–4: Authoritative Data – FEMA National Dam Safety Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Table 6–5: Authoritative Data – NIST Disaster Failures and Studies Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Table 6–6: Authoritative Data – FEMA Community Rating System 90

Table 6–7: Authoritative Data – FEMA Flood Mitigation Assistance Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Table 6–8: Authoritative Data – FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Table 6–9: Authoritative Data – FEMA National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Table 6–10: Authoritative Data – FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation. . . 92

Table 6–11: Authoritative Data – FEMA Repetitive Flood Claims . . 93

Table 6–12: Authoritative Data – FEMA Severe Repetitive Loss. . . . 93

Table 6–13: Authoritative Data – FEMA Risk Insurance Division . . 94

Table 6–14: Authoritative Data – FEMA Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Table 6–15: Authoritative Data – FEMA Citizen Corps . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Table 6–16: Authoritative Data – FEMA Continuity of Operations Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Table 6–17: Authoritative Data – FEMA Integrated Public Alert and Warning System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Table 6–18: Authoritative Data – FEMA Logistics Management Directorate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Table 6–19: Authoritative Data – FEMA Public Affairs . . . . . . . . . . 101

Table 6–20: Authoritative Data – FEMA Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Table D–1: IRSCC Member Agencies and Organizations . . . . . . . . 152

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4.5 FEMA Joint Field OperationsOverview

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Figure 4–3

Sub Category Theme Type Delay POCField Operating Locations

DoD 24 hour24 hour48 hour24 hour

Government FacilitiesDHS immediate

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5.1.1 Notice Events

5.1.2 No-Notice Events

5.2 The New Madrid Earthquake Scenario

Figure 5–1

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Displaced Population and Shelter Requirements

Table 5–1.

Table 5-1, conducted

Building Damage

Figure 5–3,

Essential Facilities

Table 5–2

Figure 5–1: Regional Ground Shaking Intensity from NMSZ Earthquake Scenario

Figure 5–2: Total Casualties from Scenario Earthquake

Source: Mid America Earthquake Center Source: Mid America Earthquake Center

State & FEMA Region Total

Total Population

At Risk (Day 1)

Seeking Shelter (Day 1)

At Risk (Day 3)

Seeking Shelter (Day 3)

4,447,100 9,645 3,081 601,561 173,4124,041,769 53,860 14,952 850,615 233,9092,844,658 61,997 18,345 705,032 205,5075,689,283 316,681 91.103 2,072,942 562,468

12,419,293 50,285 15,588 650,247 185,139Indiana 6,080,485 9,932 2,701 579,627 153,570

2,673,400 124,730 38,827 937,518 285,8655,595,211 103,655 30,074 842,002 237,991

43,791,199 730,795 214,671 7,239,544 2,037,861

Table 5–1: Estimate of “At Risk” and Shelter Seeking Populations: NMSZ Scenario Earthquake

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Water and Power Outages

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Scenario Summary

Figure 5–3: Estimated Damage to General Building Stock

Figure 5–4: Major Damage to River Crossing Bridges in NMSZ

Figure 5–5: Distribution of Water Outages on Day 1 in NMSZ

Table 5–2: Estimated Damage to Essential Facilities in the NMSZ

Essential Facility

Total Facilities

At Least Moderate Damage

Complete Damage

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6.1.1 Risk Analysis

FEMA HAZUS Program

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Operational Support

Earthquake:

Hurricane:

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FEMA Mitigation Planning

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Authoritative Data

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Sub Category Theme Type POC

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NIST Disaster Failures and Studies Program

Overview

Operational Support

Authoritative Data

(see Table 6–5)

Speci c Products

6.1.2 Risk Reduction

Table 6–5: Authoritative Data – NIST Disaster Failures and Studies Program

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FEMA Building Science

Overview

Operational Support

Authoritative Data

Speci c Products

FEMA Community Rating System

Overview

Table 6–6: Authoritative Data – FEMA Community Rating System


Table 6–7: Authoritative Data – FEMA Flood Mitigation Assistance Program


Table 6–8: Authoritative Data – FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program


Mitigation &

Preparedness



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