Organizing a GIS District Response Task Force (DRTF) for Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Jasper and Newton Counties (District One) Becky McKinley, GISP GIS Manager, Hammond Sanitary District Co-Chair, NWI GIS Forum

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Organizing a GIS District Response Task Force
(DRTF)for Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Jasper and
Newton Counties (District One)Becky McKinley,
GISPGIS Manager, Hammond Sanitary
DistrictCo-Chair, NWI GIS Forum
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Background

• May , 2012
• Approached by Eric Kurtz, D1 IMT Incident
  Commander / Team Leader
• First meeting with the NWI GIS Forum
• Eric described his experience in March, 2012
  after the Henryville tornados and his vision of a
  district level response task force for GIS
• Roger described his involvement in Henryville and
  the IDHS expectations from a GIS DRTF in the
  field
• In an emergency is it more important to be
  informative then to be right

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Why Organize a GIS DRTF?

• Immediate mapping needs in an emergency are very
  basic. They include
• Being able to print/plot in the field
• Use mash-ups of data and the different viewers
• Deliver the map to the customer
• What does GIS add to the response in the field?
• Improved operational coordination of field
  operations
• Inform the common operating picture
• Add to the number of tech savvy staff who can
  assist in overall information technology needs in
  the field

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Beyond Immediate ResponsePreliminary Damage
Assessment

• Report to the Operations Chief and
• provide a division map of the incident area
• help grid this division area so Operations can
  assign areas to individuals for data collection
• provide them with these grid maps for field
  damage assessment
• Provide JIT (just-in-time) training on the GPS
  units to the members of the Operations Sector who
  will doing the field data collection
• Take the data as if comes back in and
• Create status maps showing the areas completed
• Create severity maps based on the field
  assessment data
• Analyze the results and assign a cost to the
  incident based on the field assessment data

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Progress to Date

• September, 2012
• Had 4 credentialed team members (Becky, Dan,
  Sarah and Anthony)
• Visited the Mobile Response vehicle and began
  getting quotes for equipment
• October, 2012
• Formally recognized by IDHS as a district GIS
  response team with 5 credentialed members (added
  Chuck with Porter County)
• Submitted grant application to District 1 IMT
• February , 2013
• Observed an exercise during an All-Hazards IMT
  training class at a local hospital
• Jasper County is now represented by Alan and Adam
• March , 2013
• Grant was approved began ordering the equipment
• May , 2013
• Equipment is in next steps are to set it up and
  plan our first table-top drill
• Goal for fall, 2013 is to participate
• in a district-wide all hazards drill

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Participants

• Credentialed GIS professionals
• Anthony Walker, Lake County Surveyors Office)
• Sarah Geinosky, NIRPC
• Becky McKinley, Hammond Sanitary District
• Dan Niksch, City of Crown Point Engineers Office
• Chuck Miller, Porter County Auditors Office

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Participants (continued)

• D1 Incident Management Team (IMT) Champions
• Eric Kurtz (Incident Commander Porter County
  EMA)
• Russ Shirley (Fiscal Agent Porter County EMA)
• Other GIS Professional support (and potential
  credentialed participants)
• Shannon Lefever Lake County Surveyors Office
• Adam Lyons Jasper County
• Alan Shanks Jasper County
• Tony Hendricks LaPorte County Surveyor
• Danielle Sands Newton County
• Cele Morris - IUN
• Other Participation and support
• D1 IMT numerous specialty response tasks
  forces, sector chiefs etc.
• IDHLS
• NWI GIS Forum
• Other District GIS DRTFs (D5 and D2)
• Region 5 EPA and FEMA
• IGIC GIS Corps/National States Geographic
  Information Council 
• Private sector (WTH, Sidwell)

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Initial Equipment Summary

• Two 15 laptop computers running the ArcView
  level of ArcGIS.
• Two larger monitors for use with the laptops
• Ability to check out more advanced licensing of
  the ArcGIS software such as Arc Info and numerous
  extensions, from the IDHS via VPN connection
• An HP Color LaserJet CP5525n printer for making
  either letter size or 11x17 paper maps.
• An HP DesignJet 111 - 24, roll-fed inkjet
  plotter for making large format maps.
• A number of jumpdrives to sneakernet data and
  maps when necessary as well as a high capacity
  external hardrive for back-up and off-site data
  compilation.
• Open Office (an open source, free suite of office
  applications) will be used for word processing
  and working with spreadsheets.
• Three Trimble Juno 3B handheld GPS units for
  field data collection.
• Both laptops will be equipped with the TerraSync
  software to communicate with the Juno GPS units
• One laptop will be loaded with the Trimble
  Pathfinder Office software needed to post-process
  the GPS data and improve its accuracy

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TrainingGeneral requirements for DRTF
Participation

• NIMS on-line minimal requirements (each is
  approximately 3-hours followed by a test)
• ICS-100 Introduction to the Incident Command
  System
• IS-700 National Incident Management System, An
  Introduction
• IS-200.b Introduction to Incident Command System
• IS-800.B National Response Framework, An
  Introduction
• (http//training.fema.gov/EMI/)
• FEMA Emergency Management Institute

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Training (continued) Recommended Additional NIMS
courses

• Two instructor led classes
• ICS-300 Intermediate Incident Command System for
  Expanding Incidents
• ICS-400 Advanced ICS for Command and General
  Staff, Complex Incidents and MACS for Operational
  First Responders

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Training(continued) Required for ACAMs Access

• Protected Critical Infrastructure Information
  (PCII) https//pciims.dhs.gov about 45 minutes
  on-line
• Automated Critical Asset Management System
  (ACAMS) training (must have your info entered on
  the ACAMs roster and submitted to Roger Kolpein
  prior to being allowed to register for an account
  at http//captap-training.org/

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Training (continued) Recommended for ACAMs Access

• IS-860.a National Infrastructure Protection Plan
  (NIPP)
• Become a Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability
  Information (CVI) authorized user (approximately
  one hour) http//www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_118
  1835547413.shtm

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Training (continued) Optional for Specific Skills

• FEMA Emergency Management Institute
  (http//training.fema.gov/EMI/)
• IS-120.A An Introduction to exercises
• IS-130 Exercise Evaluation and Improvement
  Planning
• IS-139 Exercise Design
• US National Grid
• IDHS On-line training site (http//indianafirstres
  ponder.org/)
• Damage Assessment (Individual Assistance--Initial
  Assessment)
• This course focuses on what you will need to know
  to conduct initial assessments for Individual
  Assistance (IA) operations after damage has
  occurred to homes or businesses of a community.
  Public Assistance (PA) assessments will not be
  discussed here. Duration 4 hours

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IDHS Support

• Library of ESRI Licenses
• WebEOC Flexviewers
• Specialized GIS skills
• Funding

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How our DRTF will be Organized

• 3-5 credentialed members (deployable assets)
• Have a signed Participation Application on file
  with the District Commander
• Have completed all required training
• A secondary GIS support team
• Made up of GIS specialists who cannot necessarily
  deploy to the event but can support the team
  remotely

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IGIC GIS Corps Support

• Statewide Contact list
• Inventory of special skills
• Continued support of the IndianaMap and the
  ortho/LIDAR program

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Questions?Becky McKinleybmckinley_at_hammondsd.com
219-853-6413x516