New Orleans Flood Resilience Experiment After Action Report
This after-action report (AAR) documents the New Orleans Flood Resilience Experiment, which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), and First Responders Group (FRG) in coordination with the city of New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (NOHSEP) and Greater New Orleans, Inc. (GNO, Inc.). The experiment was the first of its kind under the S&T Flood Apex program, which is aimed at applying new and emerging technologies to improve community resilience from flood disasters. The report includes:
- core objectives
- procedure
- results
- next step recommendations from observation and input from participants
Recommended for emergency environmental public health practitioners working at the state, tribal, local, and territorial level.
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Exercise on operationalizing non traditional information sources
Interesting case study in New Orleans related to flood resilience. They call it an experiment, but it really was an exercise for operationalizing non-traditional information sources using the “citizens as a sensor” concept.
Sarah P
11/22/2023 2:41 pm