2017 ESIP Winter Meeting: Disaster Cluster Sessions

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Notes from 2017 Winter Meeting Disaster Sessions (thanks to Ken Keiser)

Near Real Time Data for the Disasters Response User Community
2pm Disaster Cluster Session (Karen Moe 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
• consider table-top exercises to learn valuable lessons
  

Data Driven Decision Making for the Disasters Response User Community
4pm Disaster Cluster Session (Karen leading - Dave Jones remote)

Presentation & Discussion with Erin Robinson/ESIP
ESIP perspectives on the Data Driven Decision Making (3DM) workshop in Oct. 2016

• ESIP testbed effort linked up with All Hazards Consortium's Fleet Management Working Group
• 3DM workshop in Oct - ESIP presence, FEMA, Utility companies - private sector feeling
• Hosted at Edison Electric Institute
• stakeholders talking about their data needs
• ways that ESIP can help bridge the data needs with data available from ESIP members and functions
• Dave: in addition to identifying existing datasets is the chance to define new data products

Presentation by Tom Moran/AHC (All Hazards Consortium)
Fleet Response Working Group perspectives on the 3DM workshop

• users/decision makers often don’t speak the same language as the data providers
• used user “stories” to get across what the data gaps are - identified documentation gaps (declaration of emergency) - problem getting milk to impacted area; problem with turnpike access during an emergency
• funding example; $30M for data initiative in 1 state - from 1 utility company
• focus on data services - solving problems and use cases
• FRWG will probably double in a year
• Next workshop last week of Jan in Philadelphia

Questions/Comments

• Brian Wee (Neptune) - how is the FRWG structured and participation; SIS (sensitive information sharing) agreement; needed to be private sector run only
• Steve Young - potential role of crowd sourcing; WAZE example, not dependable but potentially useful; Haiti efforts led to useful information
• David Green - yes, crowd sourcing potential (USGS “did you feel it”); need to get feedback to data producers on the benefit that the data provided - is there a way to get that type of feedback? What difference did it make?

• Tom: same concern from private sector - potentially answered by workshops, webinars, etc.

Presentation by Luis Bermudez/OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium)
OGC Testbed plans in 2017

• Completed Testbed12

• WCS with OPeNDAP
• WMS with GIBS
• Imagery Quality and Accuracy - digital globe requirements
• WPS conflation service
• GeoPackage US Topo
• Big Data Database
• Vector and Raster Tiling
• geoJSON user guide
• REST user guide

• Releasing CFP for Testbed 13 - in January

• themes

• REST clients
• OGC web service interfaces
• architecture
• semantics - linked data, shared vocabularies, etc
• cloud
• big data access services
• data modeling - dynamic sources

• Mass migration - 3d data moving features, 3d portrayal standard, 3d tiles, etc.
• Climate change - drought; integration of climate prediction models
• Impact of drought on populations; connecting models to social systems

Presentation by Maggie Glasscoe/JPL
Update on Cascadia Rising exercise

• providing actionable data for situational awareness
• Exercises

• Cascadia Rising
• Vigilant Guard 17
• Haywired 2017

• Cascadia Rising

• local, state, tribal and federal gov’t joint operation
• large number of participants

• Vigilant Guard - CA and NV full scale exercise (Nov 2016) - to train, develop and refine joint operations
• CA Earthquake Clearinghouse - facilitating field investigations, assist researchers, sharing information, track fieldwork

• working on technology interoperability

• incident situational awareness sharing
• participation with GeoCollaborate ESIP Testbed activity

Presentation by Ken Keiser/UAH
Update on Event-Driven Data Delivery technology

• facilitates data preparedness and planning
• integration with application such as GeoCollaborate
• later session to cover event-based virtual collections

Wrap up by Dave Jones and Karen Moe

• Success and results for ESIP Testbed activity
• good collaborations of various efforts and projects
• plan to follow-up with David Green on South American testbed/exercise
• trusted data - session later in the meeting