The National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS) is a voluntary incentive program that recognizes and encourages community floodplain management activities that exceed the minimum NFIP requirements. As a result, flood insurance premium rates are discounted to reflect the reduced flood risk resulting from the community actions meeting the three goals of the CRS:

Reduce flood damage to insurable property;
Strengthen and support the insurance aspects of the NFIP, and
Encourage a comprehensive approach to floodplain management.
GIS can be an integral part of the CRS process by providing calculations and products that are needed to help show the work that was done by a community in preparation for the final review by FEMA.

We have the pleasure of co-presenting this month’s webinar with Ayres Associates. Ayres is the GISC’s vendor of choice for collecting base map features including planimetric data, imagery, and contours. In this month’s webinar titled ‘The Value of LiDAR’ we will cover a brief description of LiDAR technology, the various LiDAR products offered, and examples on how LiDAR data has been utilized by local governments.

MGP believes in actively improving on the past and collaboration among experts. With those values and others, MGP has found great use in the tools available in Office365. These uses have been found to raise our efficiency and proved a better experience for all of our clients. Join us for a peek into our environment to see what best practices we have implemented to improve our productivity and success that you could implement as well!