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Presentation 1 - Basinwide Approach
to North Carolina CTS
Presentation 2 - NC CTS Statewide
Mapping Program
Presentation 3 - Quality Control
of LIDAR DEMs for North Carolina DFIRMs
Presentation 4 - Scoping the North
Carolina CTS Project
The Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) will hold its 25th Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 3-8, 2001. The theme of the conference will be "New Trends in Floodplain Management: Plan, Prepare, Protect." The ASFPM is an organization of professionals involved in floodplain management, flood hazard mitigation, the National Flood Insurance Program, and flood preparedness, warning, and recovery.
The ASFPM annual conferences are recognized as the most important floodplain conference in the United States year after year. With more than 100 speakers and as many as 600 participants, they are the national conferences all community, state and federal floodplain managers plan to attend. Many of the most important consulting firms and product vendors associated with floodplain management attend.
The State has submitted several papers intended for presentation at the conference related to the new mapping program. The following presentations are currently scheduled:
- Issues and Answers in Quality Control of LIDAR DEM's Davie F. Maune,
Ph.D.,C.P. Dewberry; Other author: Gary W. Thompson, RLS, North Carolina
Geodetic Survey.
- Cooperating Technical State (CTS) Statewide Mapping...North Carolina's
Pioneering Effort John Dorman, Program Director, North Carolina CTS
Flood Mapping Program. Other authors: TBD, Planning Administrator, NC Office
of State Budget, Planning, and Management; Tim McCormick, P.E., Deputy Project
Manager, Dewberry.
- Digital Elevation Models: New Technologies and Applications David
F. Maune, Ph.D., C.P. Dewberry. Other author: Gary W. Thompson, RIS North
Carolina Geodetic Survey.
- Lumber River Basin, North Carolina Fast-Track Floodplain Mapping Project
Michael G. Pavlides, Vice President, PBS&J.
- North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Initiative Scott Edelman, P.E.,
President, Watershed Concepts. Other author: David Key, P.E., Watershed
Concepts.
- Scoping the North Carolina CTS Project Ed Curtis, NC Division of
Emergency Management. Other author: Tony Hake, Regional Team Director, Dewberry.
- Utilizing a Basin-Wide Approach to North Carolina Flood Maps John Dorman, Program Director, North Carolina CTS Flood Mapping Program. Other author: Tony Hake, Regional Team Director, Dewberry.