Please join us as we roll out the Community Rating System (CRS) Green Guide, a new resource that highlights elements in the 2013 CRS Coordinator’s Manual, which have beneficial impacts beyond flood risk reduction. The … Continued
Hydrology is an important component of flood studies with a significant amount of uncertainty. Some States have established a process for coordinating with federal agencies to help ensure that flood flows approved for flood studies … Continued
High-water marks provide valuable data for understanding recent and historical flood events. The proper collection and recording of high-water mark data from perishable and preserved evidence informs flood assessments, research, and water resource management. The … Continued
Cooperating Technical Partners are routinely funding elevation data collection using LiDAR technology. However, there can be pitfalls. This webinar provides information on USGS and FEMA elevation data standards, QA/QCing LiDAR data, data storage issues, and … Continued
FEMA’s Engineering Library is responsible for the archival and maintenance of all technical and administrative support data and related publications associated with the National Flood Insurance Program. Engineering models associated with a Flood Insurance Study … Continued
FEMA has made First Order Approximations part of the Discovery process. On this web meeting, an overview was given concerning the background and methodology for this product, and comments concerning best practices with FOAs were … Continued
A significant portion of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Flood Hazard Maps have not been modernized/converted to GIS format – that is they are only in hard copy. In this session, Cooperating Technical Partners discussed … Continued