Category:HAZUS Training

This hands-on course is designed to empower emergency managers, planners, engineers, public safety professionals, and others with the skills needed to visualize, query, and analyze information related to disaster mitigation, response, recovery, and risk management using ArcGIS, the application on which HAZUS-MH is based.

The course provides a solid foundation of basic skills for new ArcGIS users.  These skills include map design, creation of charts and reports, techniques for constructing both spatial and attribute related queries, creation and manipulation of tabular as well as geographic data, understanding and managing coordinate systems, and managing spatial data with ArcCatalog.  The course also introduces a number of the more powerful capabilities of ArcGIS such as georeferencing scanned imagery, geocoding, and the Spatial Analyst extension which is required by HAZUS-MH for flood modeling, but can also be used for a significant range of other tasks including visualization of terrain data, modeling of population movements, and much more.  The class concludes with a group exercise in which students apply the skills that they have learned to solve a realistic problem.

While this course does not provide hands-on instruction specifically on HAZUS-MH, all exercises use HAZUS-MH inventory and model output and therefore students become familiar with elements of HAZUS-MH while learning how to use the underlying GIS technology upon which HAZUS-MH operates.

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