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Services for Emergency Management and Preparedness

Emergency managers require clear and actionable information about current and potential hazards and their impacts for pre-disaster preparedness and response planning. Kinetic Analysis Corporation (KAC) has tools and products that meet those emergency management information needs:

Pre-event mitigation and disaster response planning

In advance of a hazard event, information about the hazard risk to specific areas, population groups and structures is needed for hazard mitigation and disaster response planning:

• Which areas of my jurisdiction are most prone to hazards?

• How often should we expect hazard events and how bad will their impacts be?

• What key infrastructure (e.g. emergency, transportation, communication, medical) is at risk to damage or destruction?

KAC can provide you with hazard assessments, risk assessments and loss estimates to help guide community development towards safer development locations and practices. KAC's hazard and risk analysis produces probabilistic information that can help you understand hazard risks at different time horizons, such as the expected 10-year or 50-year hazard impacts. KAC also provides hazard and risk assessment results in map or GIS format for easy integration into your existing information systems.

During a hazard event

When a hazard event is imminent, such as when a hurricane is headed in your direction, disaster response needs take priority:

• What specific areas will be affected and how significant will the impacts be?

• What levels of assistance will be needed to deal with the resulting destruction, debris and electrical outages from the event?

KAC monitors tropical cyclone activity worldwide and produces, in real time for each active system, expected wind, wave and storm surge hazards and the expected impacts—percent of buildings damaged, debris generated, percent of homes without electricity. KAC generates this real-time storm hazard and impact information within 20 minutes after official dissemination of a tropical storm advisory, and updates this information with every new advisory (usually every 6 hours), from the first advisory to the moment the storm is dissipated overland.

KAC's real-time storm hazard and impact information can be provided in GIS format, enabling the integration of expected impact assessments with existing databases of housing, population and key infrastructure to allow more detailed analysis of who will be impacted by the impending event, and how severely.

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