Development of guidelines for enhancement of the grid-oriented public shelter model. Final report
Over the last few years, FEMA (formerly DCPA) developed a computer program for analyzing scenarios about civil defense against a national nuclear attack. This model, named TENOS (Technique for Evaluation of National Operations Systems), can assess the expected damage under a variety of scenarios. This study was designed to collect available population and shelter data, to analyze that data, to examine appropriate methodologies for enhancement of the quality of estimates of both blast and radiation shelter spaces within grid cells, and to design specific algorithms to be used to create or improve these estimates. These shelter and population estimates are to be contained in a grid file which is used by TENOS. To achieve project objectives, RTI examined NSS and other data bases to assess the completeness of the shelter information used by the TENOS system, developed strategies to compensate for missing data required by the TENOS model, and developed both methodologies and algorithms to allocate the NSS shelter data to the 2' x 2' grid system. The algorithms described in this report reflect the best compromise between accuracy and efficiency based on RTI's understanding of the characteristics of TENOS and the problems addressed by it. Algorithms were developed in five areas; i.e., Code A mine spaces, risk area blast spaces, host area fallout spaces, home basement spaces, and a procedure to allocate spaces and population to grid centroids.
- Research Organization:
- Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5388013
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-107545/6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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