New Geospatial Data Resources for
Harvey Response and Recovery
As the Harvey response and recovery efforts continue in Southeast Texas and Louisiana, geospatial information has a key role to play.
The DHS Geospatial Management Office (GMO) team is supporting a number of efforts to ensure accurate and timely geospatial information is available and easily discoverable. The GeoCONOPS and Geospatial Center of Excellence in HSIN are being enhanced as we discover new resources. One such tool is the Hurricane Harvey Response page led by the DHS GMO Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) support team, which contains available geospatial data and other information relevant to the response and recovery efforts. To access any of these resources, please visit the Geospatial link from HSIN Central or the HSIN Toolbox.
Other Tools Available!
At the direct request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support ongoing Hurricane Harvey response efforts, a new publicly available Geospatial Platform resource was established to aggregate Hurricane Harvey specific geospatial content for the Homeland Security Enterprise: https://respond-harvey-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com
The site was developed in partnership with Department of Interior, DHS Information Sharing and Service Office, Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) Subcommittee, and the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG). Currently the site has over 50 data sets and growing. It will be maintained to ensure it has the most recent and best available open geospatial content related to Hurricane Harvey response recovery activities, and right now includes data for the following:
Examples of Data Available Now:
Harvey-Specific Incident Data
- Coastal Assessments
- Flood Depth Grids
- FEMA Model Damage Assessment Public Points
- Levees at Risk
Imagery
- NOAA Harvey Imagery Services
- Amateur UAS Video
- Before and After Imagery Swipe
Emergency Services
- Shelter Services w/ live status information
- Hospitals
- Fire Stations
- EOCs
Community Resources
- Pharmacies with open/closed status information
- Day Cares
- Nursing Homes
Community Lifelines
- Levee Areas
- Dam Areas & lines
- Natural Gas Pipelines
Today we are aggressively working with US National Grid (USNG) Map Books for Affected Counties to continue to aid with ongoing USAR operations.
We encourage you to explore the site, take a look at what data is currently available, and think about what other high priority/mission critical data sets are needed.
How You Can Help w/ HIFLD for Harvey:
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HSIN Mission Advocates are standing by! If you need assistance with your secure information sharing or collaboration requirements please contact the HSIN outreach Team: HSIN.Outreach@hq.dhs.gov
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Share and Spread the Word! Use hashtag #HIFLD4Harvey in social media posts. Share the website out with your friends and colleagues in anticipating GIS needs, mutual aid requests, and any related response/recovery efforts.
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Got Data for Harvey? If you have geospatial content that is directly relevant to Harvey and that you consider to be best available, send an email with the link to the data to HIFLD@hq.dhs.gov.
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Unmet Mission Critical Data Needs? If you have identified a mission critical information requirement that is not currently supported by data available in HIFLD for Harvey, please let us know what the need is by sending an email to HIFLD@hq.dhs.gov.
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