Disaster Cluster: Long term sustainability
Long term sustainability is crucial to capabilities supporting and enabling disaster lifecycle activities. The overarching objective of the ESIP Disaster Cluster is to facilitate connections and coordinate efforts among data providers, managers and developers of disaster response systems and tools, and end-user communities within ESIP. This session will include report of the working group's activities, presentations that highlight use cases and Disasters & Risk Management (DRM) information architecture, as well as planning for future activities.
Since the January ESIP meeting, the Disasters Cluster has discussed elements of a disasters 'information architecture', especially at the joint ESIP/CEOS WGISS session in April. These topics support the goal of identifying and infusing new Earth observation capabilities (products and services) into end user disaster management systems. This session will look at existing efforts addressing disasters information that we might leverage in discussing and determining the cluster's action plan.
Agenda
Thomas Huang
SWEET 200000 hits per month
SWEET as an Upper Level Ontology
SWEET Instances for Impacts and Relations
-keeps track of definitions and concepts related to disasters
-high level model for flood
-volcanic eruptions
-etc.
Go beyond start searches - sample knowledge base system using SWEET
OSCAR - Ontological system for context artifacts and resources
-system is self growing
-multifaceted approach to data
-An iterative process
-Sources of information
System loads ontology automatically from SWEET
(google knowledge graph)
Explanation of OSCAR in action..
Tie data together via inference and ontology.
Best practices: Keep ontology small, get experts involved
New website is being developed
SWEET 2.4 in the works
sweet.jpl.nasa.gov
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THomas Stephens
Global Change Master Directory
up to a 5 level hierarchy
some of the keywords for disasters, within natural hazards
review of the governance process
once accepted, keywords are added during the release cycle
gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Matt Austin
TPIO Technology planning and information for observations
NOAA Observing system integrated analysis value tree explorer
2000 data sources, over 800 products, 72 sites, all using different terms. Had
to reconcile these and link them
17000 nodes
How do I assign the proper ontology?
OSTP is doing the same thing
Created using d3, javascript library. Lots of visualizations that you can do.
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Dave Jones
StormCenter Communications inc.
SBIR contract, new, unique idea.
Shares geospatial information into existing system.
Delivered a mapping environment to NWS that can be linked to MEMA's system
In terms of ESIP, this is a vehicle to deliver our data to end users
Can collaborate remotely, and unite disparate COPs
www.stormcenter.com/geo_collab.html
Systems uses all OGC compliant data, kml is good way to share
Impact Based Decision Support Services
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Sara Graves
University of Alabama
ED3 Plan Database
Event driven data delivery is a cyber framework to facilitate decision support
What are the event triggers.
Data albums, social media, and other things all feed into this system
System offers a lot of different types of information, summary analytics, summary analytics, and more.
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Karen Moe
Possible activities
Trying to get together use cases.
Proposal
Need terminology, classification, relationship
Develop a process to capture end user needs
-describe use cases
-interview/survey to identify information, systems in use
-capture information content
--vocabulary, glossary, unstructured and structured information
--relationships/semantics
Share in ESIP wiki
-possible use USGIN Information Exchange spreadsheet or other consistent format
-Examine information for patterns
Wish list for disaster products..(long)
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What is the goal? Let’s decide on the next telecom.
Some members that landslide and drought data that is on the wish list.
Need to put disaster wish list on the wiki and get feedback from membership.