Module 5: Damage Assessment

This week we explored the damage assessment aspect of Hurricane Sandy's landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey. We tracked Sandy, created and designed attribute geodatabases for editing purposes. As well as exploring imagery effects tools to visualize pre/post Sandy imagery. We used parcel data, the imagery, and the crewly created damage assessment files to catelog a street on the New Jersey coastline. General steps to accomplish this included, creating line features from points for the track, adjusting the symbology to look like a hurricane graphic, creating a mosaic dataset for pre and post imagery rasters to be. Then created more data using new feature classes and domains and finally filling in those attribute tables with the points/data for our structures in the study area. Below there is a screenshot of the structural damage points created and a table of the distance to coastline to examine patterns.