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GIS staff show how mobile forms and drones aided county flood response
Summary
Kurt Lebo of the county GIS team demonstrated how mobile forms, citizen reporting and drone imagery supported situational awareness and interagency coordination during July flooding, helping emergency management, water resources and transportation collect and analyze damage data in near real time.
Kurt Lebo presented a demonstration of GIS and field-data tools the county used during severe rainfall and flooding the first week of July. He showed hourly rainfall accumulations and described how the county used mobile forms (Survey123) to collect location‑tied field reports from staff and the public, and how those submissions — including photos and videos — were ingested into map-based dashboards for situational awareness.
Lebo said multiple departments (OEM, water resources, transportation) used forms and that the county’s drone team collected aerial imagery of damaged roads and infrastructure for planning repairs. The data allowed field workers and office staff to see geolocated reports and media, helping prioritize repairs and debris-management responses.
Committee members thanked GIS staff for their work and asked about data sources: Lebo said photos and videos come from OEM forms (citizen reporting), departmental field crews and the county’s drone team. He said the system can become a near-real-time system of record for field documentation.
The committee acknowledged GIS’s role in emergency response and encouraged continued cross‑departmental use of mobile forms and shared dashboards for event management.
