CATS User's Manual

Abstract

The Consequences Assessment Tool Set (CATS) addresses the need to predict damage and analyze consequences from natural and technological disasters. Winner of numerous awards, including the 1996 Ford Foundation Innovations in American Government Award, CATS employs a suite of hazard, casualty and damage assessment modules to estimate and analyze effects of natural phenomena, such as hurricanes and earthquakes, and technological disasters, such as terrorist incidents, involving weapons of mass destruction, and industrial accidents. CATS depicts damage extent, probabilities and numbers of fatalities and injuries, and mitigative resource allocation. CATS operates on Pentium PCs running Windows 95/98/NT 4.0, and is integrated within the commercially available Arcview(Registered) Geographic Information System (GIS). CATS uses the power of the GIS to display and analyze hazard predictions, perform consequences assessment, facilitate resource management and create pictorial and textual reports. This report provides user instructions and a technical description of the code architecture.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA423521

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People

  • Dean Kaul
  • James M Roberts
  • John G Bruno

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Computers
  • Electronic Mail
  • Geography
  • Health Services
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Medical Personnel
  • Meteorology
  • Ridges
  • Storm Surges
  • Terrain
  • Therapy
  • Topography

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.