North Dakota GIS Conference 2006: Presentations
FIRMs to DFIRMs: Changes to Floodplain Maps in North Dakota
Presented by: Brian Fischer, CFM, GIS Project Manager, Houston Engineering, Inc. and Julie Prescott, PE, Water Resource Engineer, ND State Water Commission
» PowerPoint Presentation (13.3Mb ppt)
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) set out in 2003 with a vision to update the nation's flood hazard maps. The goal of FEMA was to convert flood insurance rate maps (FIRM) to a digital format, becoming known as digital flood insurance rate maps (DFIRM). The North Dakota State Water Commission has taken the lead in the State of North Dakota and become a cooperating technical partner with FEMA to update the State's flood hazard maps. This presentation will inform the GIS community in North Dakota about the current status of the Map Modernization program. It will also focus on the use of GIS in the digital conversion projects and new engineering study projects. Finally the presentation will inform flood hazard data users where to obtain digital data and demonstrate uses of the DFIRM data.
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