Esri Emergency Management Webinar Series: Best Practices for Conducting Damage Assessments Resources

BrendaMartinez

We had a great webinar this week on Best Practices for Conducting Damage Assessments.  If you missed it, you can find the video recording online at www.esri.com/pswebinar listed under the Emergency Management Past Webinar section.   

We discussed several resources during this webinar and below are the list of helpful links to get you started.  Attached you will find some of the commonly asked questions from the webinar.

Where to learn…

• Survey123 GeoNet blog and discussion forum
• Survey123 YouTube Video-Tutorials
• Survey123 documentation
• Learn.arcgis.com
• Esri Live Training Seminars

Additional Resources – Deeper Dive

• The basics of XLSForm (the language of smart forms)
• How to create one (or  more) surveys on top of an existing feature layer
• Working with USNG coordinates
• Reverse geocoding
• How to enable editing of existing features
• How to leverage notes
• How to work with lists in your forms
• How to watermark a photo
• How to store location metadata (and why)
• How to store photo metadata (and why)
• Microsoft Excel for Survey123 Ninjas
• How to automate e-mail notifications with Survey123 web hooks
• How to do a lookup search against a CSV
• How to create Survey123 feature reports
• Smart Sketching in Survey123
• Understand the instance_name setting
• Creating public surveys
• Launching Survey123 from other apps
• Working with lines and polygons
• Using the FEMA PDA Templates

Questions / ideas / suggestions? Please reach out to Ryan Lanclos, Director of Public Safety Solutions – rlanclos@esri.com

Conducting Damage Assessment Webinar Q&A 10-03-19.pdf