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Module 6: Damage Assessment

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The purpose of this lab was to perform a post Hurricane Sandy damage assessment on structures within a study area in New Jersey. I began by performing a raster mosaic with pre- and post-Sandy imagery. With these mosaics added to a map, the Flicker and Swipe tools could be used to examine the structures pre- and post-Sandy.  I created a new point feature class for the damage assessment and created attribute domains for the analysis. Using domains helps assessments such as this one by ensuring data integrity because they limit value choices for each field. In addition, once the domains are created, a form can be created to use with ArcGIS Collector which is an app can be used in the field for a thorough damage assessment. Below is a screen capture of the domains I created with the Codes and Descriptions of the Structure Damage domain visible. I then performed my damage assessment by locating and identifying attributes based on storm damage.  I zoomed into the Ocean Cou...

Module 5: Coastal Flooding

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The purpose of this module was to explore procedures for coastal flooding and storm surge analyses using elevation models, overlay analyses for vectors and rasters, and spatial queries. The first data set was for an area in New Jersey that was impacted by Hurricane Sandy. I converted LAS files from pre- and post- Sandy for the coastline area were to TINs and then rasters. I subtracted the two rasters from each other using the Calculate Raster tool and analyzed the resulting shapefile was for damage with a 2019 building overlay. There are several areas in the study area that show significant erosion (red areas) that have not been rebuilt. The map below shows the overall results of this analysis. The second data set was also for New Jersey. A DEM was provided and I reclassified it into areas that would flood based on the Hurricane Sandy storm surge of 2 meters. I then converted the raster to a polygon and examined the result for Cape Map County. Based on the analysis, about 52% of C...