PEOPLES provides the basis for development of quantitative and qualitative models that measure continuously the functionality and resilience of communities against extreme events or disasters. Over the longer term, this framework will enable the development of geospatial and temporal decision-support tools that help planners and other key decision makers and stakeholders (http://peoplesresilience.org/).

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On 8/28/2011 Eastern New York was heavily impacted by Hurricane Irene. Many areas were flooded, buildings destroyed, and travel became impossible.
About a week later, LESAM received permission to tour the area. Our interest was in mapping the extent of the damage and collecting ground truth data. Flood inundation area were modeled using HEC-RAS, and matched with aerial imagery as well as FEMA flood scenarios.

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GeoProMT is an educational platform for undergraduate and graduate students primarily in Geography, Geology, Civil Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Planning or Environmental Studies, Business Administration and Management Science, and Law to share information and learn how to manage data and modeling tools effectively to support the integrated analyses and assessment of environmental processes to support decision-making.

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