2017 ESIP Winter Meeting: Disaster Cluster Sessions

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Notes from 2017 Winter Meeting Disaster Sessions

Near Real Time Data for the Disasters Response User Community 2pm Disaster Cluster Session (Karen leading - Dave Jones remote)

Presentation & Discussion with David Green/NASA Applied Science for Disasters
Outcomes of NASA applied science efforts and 2016 workshop on low latency data needs

• Addressing need for a timeline of disaster response efforts
• Recent workshop on low latency datasets for time-sensitive applications (104 participants)

• definitions of near realtime (low latency)
  • 0-1 hours (realtime)
  • < 3 hours (near realtime)
  • 3-24 hrs -
• NASA ESD endeavors to provide low latency data when small cost
• NASA ESD mission to provide non-real-time data may outweigh near-real-time

• NASA Mission support for NRT is secondary and considered as needed
• Created an inventory of NRT - lots of datasets. How to identify/search/discover, and usable
• Earthdata.nasa.gov - useful for NRT if you know how to use the site, but not so much for others
• Recommendations for discoverability were prepared
• Establishing a Latency Working Group

• focus on use cases - how to address response “workflows”
• need for “hazard” datasets (maybe special processing for low-latency datasets)

Questions/Comments

• Phil Beilin in CA clearinghouse - how to get involved with latency project?
• GSFC (name?) - has similar ideas to help identify relevant datasets for types of event

• David looking at how the DAACs can do a better job of providing disaster relevant data

• Gary Foley EPA - working with anyone from EPA? - some on ecological hazards - need more links

Presentation by Maggie Glasscoe/JPL - Earthquake activities
Cascadia Rising 2016 - Exercise Timelines and Product Deliveries

• Pre-defined events so timeline is known in advance - for purpose of exercise, but not reacting in realtime
• FEMA national level exercise - M 9.0 quake in Cascade Subduction Zone
• Upcoming Haywired 2017 (USGS) exercise
• Timeline of the event - showing when various data sets are available
• MSEL - master scenario event list - chronological order of events and injects that drive exercise play

Questions/Comments

• Phil Bellin - cross-agency participation
• David Green has the cluster been involved with exercises - participants, but not the cluster per se

• David - emphasizing participation in exercises - recommended and useful, NASA has a south American exercise planned for later this year

• (GSFC) will there be a call for participation in the exercise(s)? Funding available for staging or participating in exercises
• Gary Fowler - can we get the data to the onscene coordinators? Important aspect.

Presentation by Tom Moran/AHC (All Hazards Consortium)
Fleet Response Working Group activities with ESIP

• Coordination of utility outage response - between 30-120 responding organizations
• using Storm Center’s GeoCollaborate application to help organize and expose the data for response
• Testbed Project - getting response data to the participants

• realtime weather/forecasts
• state emergency declarations - must be in trucks to cross state lines
• electric sector fleet movement info
• live data updates from businesses - worked through liabilities
• Open/closed status of private sector businesses (fuel, food, hotels, etc)

• Dave Jones comments

• evolved from ESIP testbed activity
• leading to definition and identification of “trusted” data sources
• need better ways to discover the datasets
• need to address timeline issues discussed earlier

• Improving Resiliency with better data - Data Driven Decision Making (3DM) - workshops

• screen sharing approaches - leader/follower approach
• private sector owns the technology and allows government participation
• exploring NASA (and other) agency data that will be useful - in response to use cases

• David Green comments

• pick subset of decisions to address - e.g. Haiti earthquake was too complex with too many variables to be a good use case to get good results