Development of Civil Defense Damage Assessment Programs.

Abstract

This study documents efforts leading towards the development of a national damage assessment system to analyze damage resulting from a nuclear attack. It describes conversion of a number of programs from the IDA computer to that currently used at the FEMA Olney Computer Center. It documents computer programs developed for road network data base management and for nationwide fallout dose calculations. A narrative description of study activities and conclusions concerning requirements for damage assessment systems are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA094517

Entities

People

  • Leo A. Schmidt

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Civil Defense
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Databases
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Emergency Response
  • Grids
  • Language
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.
  • Software Engineering.