Damage Assessment Mapping Module: Difference between revisions

'''The Damage Assessment Mapping Module (DAMM)''' for Portland NET is a mobile device-based tool to document and map impacts of a disaster, and electronically transmit that information to the Portland Emergency Coordination Center (ECC). It is powered by [https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-survey123/overview Survey123] for ArcGIS. It is, essentially, an electronic version of [[NET Form 1]] for damage assessment. ECC personnel can immediately use information sent to them from DAMM to allocate resources for response and recovery. Volunteers can document assessments with the DAMM even in the absence of internet service, though internet service is required to transmit the reports completed by a user.

The DAMM is set up for volunteers to perform a site-to-site assessment, with one survey submitted per site. While this assessment method is labor intensive, it is highly accurate and used when a higher degree of confidence in the information is required. PBEM recommends that planned use of the DAMM appear in all '''<s><u>NET Operations Plans</u></s>''' with a '''<s><u>Team Leader</u></s>''' assigning at least one or two volunteers to begin making reports with it after the acute phase of disaster response has passed (probably 24 hours after an earthquake, for example). Volunteers using the DAMM assess each property site in their neighborhood, site by site, and reports should include undamaged property (in the survey, there is an option to indicate up front that a volunteer observes no damage).

NET and '''<s><u>COAD</u></s>''' volunteers above all others. But, NET and COAD volunteers can also “deputize” '''<s>spontaneous volunteers</s>''' as needed. In the survey, a deputized spontaneous volunteer should use their own name but the '''<s>badge number</s>''' of the volunteer who deputized them.