Image from USGS database http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/

By

Ana Margarita Simental

USING GIS TO OPTIMIZE EMERGENCY

ROUTES TO COAL MINES IN

BOONE COUNTY WV

Emergency Management Cycle

Geographically Located

• Mitigation

• Preparedness

• Response

• Recovery

What has happened over the years?

Response vs. Mines

• 311 combined ambulance and fire service units • 21 with medical rescue services• 15 that offer fire and rescue service• 560 fire departments (government and volunteer) • 18 deep mine rescue teams

• 822 active mine or mine related sites in the state

• 395 of which are deep mines.

Source WVGES, WVPTD, WVDEP

Boone County WV

Methodology

• Find and classify location models

• identify key elements and operations

• Develop core data structures

• Create a working prototype

Software

• ER Mapper

• MapInfo

• MrSid

• ArcGIS

Sources

• WVGES

• WVPTD

• WVDHSEM

• WVDEP

• WV Tech Center

The Data

Typical data standardization

process

Overlay of the Road, Streets, Rivers and Streams shapefiles

From the WVGIS Tech Center

Boone CountyUTM Zone 17 Quadrangles

From WVGIS Tech Center and WVPTD.

Boone County DOQQs

Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangle (Detail)

Entrance Point to Big Mountain No.6 Mine

Route from Southern WV Mine Rescue to

Big Mountain No. 6 and closest Hospital

Tabular dataconverted to spatial data

Route Results Using MapPoint.

QUESTIONS?