2022 GIS in Action

8:05am | Using ESRI field applications in the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire response and recovery | David Richey
On Labor Day Weekend of 2020, the Holiday Farm Fire swept through the McKenzie Watershed burning more than 173,000 acres and over 500 homes. The Pure Water Partners (PWP) had been collaborating with landowners in the watershed on riparian protection since 2013. We pivoted to assisting landowners with environmental assessment, triage, and phased response on private lands in the watershed. Critical to the efficacy of this response is use of ESRI's ArcGIS Online content management and application framework. PWP member agency staff and contractors rapidly designed and employed assessment tools on affected lands. We based initial survey design on best available science from USFS and continue to migrate information to new database and applications to facilitate recovery and monitoring. Three databases store information on Revegetation, Invasive Species Management, and Monitoring; Forest Fuels Reduction; and Erosion Control. Our geospatial application stack includes Field Maps and Survey123 to assess and monitor land conditions, and Workforce combined with custom Survey 123 forms to communicate detailed assignment tasks to contractors. We present the technical implementation of these applications in combination to support a full life cycle of wildfire damage assessment and recovery activities, including methods and key considerations when deploying geospatial databases to ArcGIS online, populating them with data using field applications, and reporting on the information collected.

8:25am | Oregon's Damage Assessment Utility | Daniel Stoelb
This session will cover Oregon's new damage assessment utility, which collects key critical information for conducting home and business damages. Information covered include the impetus for this program and current functionality.