Critical Infrastructure Assessment
Mission
Develop a workflow for state critical facilities to be updated in statewide and national databases.
Why?
- Spatial data sharing makes multi-jurisdiction coordination more effective,
- Maps for response can be made faster and will have accurate critical facilities data located,
- Rural counties without a geospatial specialist will receive support to verify their critical infrastructure locations,
- Duplication of efforts will be reduced when multiple agencies can share statewide data required for statewide planning, and
- Many planning processes happen outside of Emergency Management offices, so inaccurate data is perpetuated in planning documents from local to statewide scales.
Our Story
Growing out of efforts to improve the critical infrastructure information available for creation of county mitigation plans as funded by HSEM and developed by U-Spatial at the University of Minnesota at Duluth, this project team is working to develop a work flow which can be used to create and maintain "state sponsored" data sets for basic items of critical infrastructure. Initial efforts have focused on fire stations, police stations, schools, hospitals and public buildings. The ultimate goal is develop the process to the point where the state can enable data sets so that local, state and federal responders all have access to same current, accurate data sets so that everyone has the same understanding about infrastructure critical to response. In many ways, this project picks up where initial development of the Minnesota Structures Collaborative wrapped up in 2010 due to budget cuts.
Project Team Current Goal
Continue ongoing efforts to develop and document methodologies for maintaining and distributing accurate data sets of critical infrastructure to local, state and federal response partners.
Meetings
- Frequency: Approximately every 6 weeks
- Time: Usually 9 am on Fridays - check "Events Calendar" for next meeting information
- Where: Online - Zoom
- Chair/Point of Contact: Stacey Stark, slstark@d.umn.edu, 218-726-7438