PDQ Documentation = Preservation

…seeking to develop
new strategies for rapidly and efficiently
documenting and analyzing threats
to historic landscapes and structures,
and informing decision processes.

Barrett Kennedy and Andy Ferrell

School of Architecture - Louisiana State University
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
PDQ Survey & Documentation
 National Center for
Preservation Technology and Training
Mission:
To advance the application
of science and technology
to historic preservation
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Disaster Mitigation = Documentation

™ What: efforts to reduce the impact

of a natural (or unnatural)
disaster...
™ When: before, during, and after…
™ How: survey, inventory…
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Geo-Referenced Recording

™ GPS-Enabled Digital Camera

™ Google Earth
™ IsWhere Plug-in Application
 Red Tag Survey
New Orleans NR Districts
Data available at “Katrina.lsu.edu”

Storm Surge Inundation

shapefiles :

maps

tables

reports
 Interstate Highway
High : 13.493113

Low : 0.001122
Historica Districts

0 0.5 1 2 3 4
Miles
.
 PDQ = Disaster Mitigation

…seeking to develop new strategies for

rapidly and efficiently
documenting and analyzing threats
to historic landscapes and structures,
and informing decision processes.
…rapidly and efficiently document
PDQ Survey & Documentation
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Electronic Data Collection

™ PDA

™ FAST Software

™ GPS

™ Digital Camera
 PDQ Survey & Documentation
Holy Cross Historic District (Lower 9th Ward)

™ One Person
™ 100 structures per day (>2500)
™ Spatial data (GPS)
™ Digital Imagery
™ Digital Text w/consistent terminology
™ Digital Audio Commentary
™ GIS “enabled”
 PDQ = Disaster Mitigation

…seeking to develop new strategies for

rapidly and efficiently
documenting and analyzing threats
to historic landscapes and structures,
and informing decision processes.
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Geospatial Video Recordings
PDQ… and GREEN
Geospatial Video Browser
 PDQ = Disaster Mitigation

…collaborative partnerships
to develop new strategies for
rapidly and efficiently
documenting and analyzing threats
to historic landscapes and structures,
and informing decision processes.
Geospatial Video Browser
Data Analysis
 PDQ = Disaster Mitigation

…seeking to develop new strategies for

rapidly and efficiently
documenting and analyzing threats
to historic landscapes and structures,
and informing decision processes.
 PDQ
Documentation = Disaster Mitigation

™ …efforts to reduce the impact of a

natural (or unnatural) disaster
™ …before, during, and after
™ …documentation, survey, inventory
™ And… make the information
accessible to planning processes,
decision makers, community-based
constituencies…
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Lessons Learned?

™ ABANDON ANACHRONISTIC PRACTICES

™ EXPLORE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
™ UNDERSTAND NEEDS
™ ACKNOWLEDGE RISKS
™ SEEK PARTNERSHIPS
™ …AND BE PDQ