Approach: The Disaster Lifecycle Cluster has seen great success in its efforts to put Federated arms around “trusted data for decision makers” as a way to accelerate situational awareness and decision-making. By identifying trust levels for data. This session will build upon the Summer meeting and align perfectly with the overall ESIP theme of: Data to Action: Increasing the Use and Value of Earth Science Data and Information.
The ESIP Disaster Lifecycle Cluster has evolved into one of the most operationally active clusters in the Federation with a thirst for applying datasets to decision-making environments while building trust levels that manifest themselves as ORLs. Duke Energy, All Hazards Consortium’s Sensitive Information Sharing environment (SISE), DHS and FEMA are all increasing their interest in ORLs with their sights set on implementing them in the near future. Data is available everywhere and more of it is on the way. Trusted data is available some places and can help decision makers such as utilities make 30-second decisions that can save lives, property and get the lights back on sooner, saving millions of dollars.
This session will provide the venue to discuss emerging projects from NASA’s Applied Sciences Division (A.37), Initiatives at JPL and Federal Agency data portal access that can accelerate decision making today and in the future. We will also discuss drone data and European satellite data that is available for access and use when disasters threaten. Come and join us, the data you have may just save a life.
Agenda:
- Greg McShane, DHS CISA - The Critical Nature of the Public-Private Trusted Information Sharing Paradigm (10 min) Presented by Tom Moran, All Hazards Consortium Executive Director
- Dave Jones, StormCenter/GeoCollaborate - The status of ORLs, where we are, ESIP Announcement at GEO in Australia, AHC SISE, Next Steps (10 min)
- Maggi Glassco, NASA Disasters Program, JPL - New Applied Sciences Disasters Projects, Possible Lifeline Support Information Sources in the Future (10 min)
- Bob Chen/Bob Downs, Columbia Univ./SEDAC/CIESIN - Specific Global and Local Population Data for Community Lifeline Decision Making (10 min)
- Discussion/Q&A Period (40 min)
Presentations
View Recording: https://youtu.be/gJ93R6SlMkMKey Takeaways for this Session: - Through the All Hazards Consortium, a new research institute will begin to help bring candidate research products into operations. An imagery committee, consisting of private and research members under SISE, will identify and evaluate use-case driven candidate imagery data within the ORL context using Geo-Collaborate.
- NASA grant opportunities within the disasters program requires co-funding by end user partners to guide usage needs and adoption (using ARL success criteria). This should increase adoption of NASA funded ASP project data and/or services. The cluster would like to work with NASA ASP as a testbed for funded projects to connect to additional user communities.
- We discussed the need / value of population data (current and predictions on affected populations) for preparedness activities and emergency response. We would like to leverage additional data services from SEDAC to test with operational decision makers.
