“40 Years of Service to Our Planet”

U.S. Department of the InteriorU.S. Geological Survey

Douglas Binnie/Rynn LambUSGS EROS Center

USGS EROS Center

• Liaison Activities• Provide 24x7 on-call support and coordination for

satellite and aerial image access, acquisition and delivery.

• Provide USGS representation and operational support to the International Charter Space and Major Disasters.

• Participates in the USGS Geospatial Information Response Team (GIRT)

• Emergency Operations Support• Establish and manage event presence on USGS

emergency response systems.

• Assure appropriate data is ingested and available.

• Operate and maintain the Emergency Operations Portal web information pages.

Emergency Operations

The Emergency Operations Value Chain

Preparedness

Delivery

UseMonitor, Feedback,Lessons Learned

Disaster orEmergency

VALUE!

What products are desirable to be

better prepared?

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EO Event Support

HDDS Support Summary

(FY 2009-14)

*Stats as of 5/31/2011

Image Access and Delivery Federal Government

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Center for Disease Control (CDC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Department of Interior (DOI) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration

(NASA) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) National Guard Bureau (NGB) National Park Service (NPS) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

(NOAA) National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB)

Federal Stakeholders

National Weather Service (NWS) US Air Force (USAF) US Air National Guard US Army US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) US Navy US Northern Command (NORTHCOM) US Department of Agriculture (USDA) US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) US Forest Service (USFS) USGS (e.g. Earthquake Hazards, Water

Science Centers, Volcano Hazards)

Local Government City Government County Government Emergency Management Offices

Other American Red Cross Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT)

State/Local/Other Stakeholders

State Government Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (e.g. CAL

FIRE) Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Department of Transportation (DOT) Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Geological Survey Homeland Security & Emergency Management National Guard

Image Access and Delivery

Data Contributors

Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Guard National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) State and Local Offices, for example:

Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) Mesa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) North Dakota Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)

US Air Force / EagleVision US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) US Department of Agriculture (USDA) US Geological Survey (USGS) US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) US National Guard (USNG)

Example Event: Hurricane Sandy

HDDS Event ID: 201210_Hurricane_Sandy HDDS Hosted Imagery:

Aerial imagery Civil Air Patrol (CAP) (158,011 images) North Carolina DOT (195 images) NOAA (2623 images) AAAI Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) (16 images) US National Guard (18 images) – RESTRICTED USGS pre-event (3762 images)

Moderate-resolution Optical Satellite Imagery Landsat 7 (48 images) ASTER (55 images) SPOT 4/5 (67 images) - RESTRICTED EO-1 ALI (19 images) NASA ISS (79 images) DMCii (3 images) - RESTRICTED

High-resolution Optical Satellite Imagery WorldView-1/2 (1028 images) – RESTRICTED QuickBird-2 (53 images) – RESTRICTED IKONOS (1 image) – RESTRICTED RapidEye-3 (3 images) - RESTRICTED Example RS-16 (UAV) image from AAAI for

Hurricane Sandy (Barnegat Light, NJ; 2 Nov 2012)

Example Event: Hurricane Sandy

HDDS Event ID: 201210_Hurricane_Sandy HDDS Hosted Imagery (continued):

Radar Imagery COSMO 2/4 (17 images) – RESTRICTED RADARSAT-2 (3 images) – RESTRICTED TERRASAR-X (4 images) – RESTRICTED

Other Datasets Map and Assessment Products – RESTRICTED Flood Polygons – RESTRICTED Lidar-based Elevation, including:

USACE DEMs USGS EEARL-B Change detection products

USGS Elevation (NED and Derived Contours) NASA VIIRS DNB FEMA Flood Maps (MOTF) Flight Plans Damage Assessments Data Sources Document

Example: USGS Elevation Product (NED; Washington DC)

Example Event: Hurricane Sandy

Example oblique aerial image after Hurricane Sandy (Seaside Heights, NJ) Acquired by NJ Civil Air Patrol (CAP) on 18 Nov 2012

FY15 Natural Hazards Support (Examples) September 2015: Earthquake in Illapel, Chile

HDDS Event ID: 201509_Earthquake_CHL Posted 5,839 images (WorldView, PlanetLabs, GeoEye, Pleiades, etc) Supported USGS science requirements for expanded AOIs and datasets (in coordination

with existing International Charter requests) Facilitated USGS access to Charter-collected datasets

May 2015: Capstone - Ardent Sentry Interagency Exercise HDDS Event ID: 201505_Earthquake_NPL Posted 750+ images (CAP Aerial, WorldView, SPOT, Landsat)

May 2015: Earthquake and Landslides in Nepal HDDS Event ID: 201505_Earthquake_NPL Posted ~6,000 images (WorldView, PlanetLabs, GeoEye, Pleiades, Radarsat, SPOT, etc) Posted over 200 map products Supported USGS science requirements in coordination with existing International Charter

requests

August 2015: Landslide in Sitka, AK HDDS Event ID: 201508_Landslide_AK Posted 40 pre- and post-event images (WorldView-2, WorldView-3, Landsat) Facilitated public domain license uplift for the high-res commercial imagery (NPS)

FY15 Natural Hazards Support (Examples) July 2015 - present: Cotopaxi, Ecuador (volcano monitoring)

HDDS Event ID: 201507_Volcano_Cotopaxi_ECU Posted 74 images to date (WorldView, Landsat, ASTER, EO-1) Continuing to support USGS science requirements for volcano hazard monitoring (CVO)

Sep 2014 - present: Mount Kilauea, HI (volcano monitoring) HDDS Event ID: 201409_Volcano_Kilauea_HI Posted 732 images & map products to date (WorldView, Landsat, ASTER, EO-1, SPOT, VA

maps) Continuing to support USGS science requirements for volcano hazard monitoring (HVO)

Nov 2013 - present: Mount Sinabung, Indonesia (volcano monitoring) HDDS Event ID: 201311_Volcano_Indonesia Posted 244 images to date (WorldView, Landsat, ASTER, EO-1, plus many Charter satellites) Triggered Charter activation on behalf of CVO and Charter image deliveries for two

activations (Jan 2014, Nov 2013) Supported USGS Project Manager (PM) role for two Charter activations (Jan 2014, Nov 2013) Continuing to support USGS science requirements for volcano hazard monitoring (CVO)

Example Map Products

Landslide perimeter and volumetric estimateproduced by USGS Science Applications Science Center (SASC). Based on WorldView-2 imagery from HDDS.

Landslide inventory map produced by UNITAR, based on WorldView image collections from HDDS.

Example Map Products

Perimeter map for Dec 2014 Kilauea lava flows produced by Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) . Based on Hawaii Volcano Observatory (HVO) analysis of WorldView-2 imagery from HDDS.

Damage assessment map for 2015 Nepal earthquake produced by UNITAR/UNOSAT. Based on WorldView-3 imagery from HDDS.

International Activities

• International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’

• CEOS Working Group on Disasters• UN SPIDER support (as requested)• USGS International Program Support (as

requested)

• International agreement among space and remote sensing agencies

• Provides space-based data and information to support relief efforts in the event of emergencies caused by major disasters• Disaster response• Multi-satellite data acquisition planning• Fast data turn-around – priority acquisition• Archive retrievals and spacecraft tasking• Data processing at pre-determined level• Space agency contribution of data/imagery• Space agency option for value-added-data fusion

Charter Members

CSACanada

NOAAUSGSUSA

CONAEArgentina

CNESFrance

Europe ESAEUMETSAT

ISROIndia

JAXAJapanCNSA

China

KARIKorea

ROSCOSMOSRussia

INPEBrasil

UKSA/DMCUK

DLRGermany

CEOS Working Group on Disasters (WDG)

• Focus is Disaster Risk Management

• 3 pilots to start this year• Floods

• Seismic

• Volcanoes (M. Poland Hawaii Volcano Observatory – Co-Chair)

• Data Coordination team – Brenda Jones

• Requesting data for the complete disaster cycle

Hazards Data Distribution System (HDDS)

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/

HDDS Explorer

New capability:

Search and

browse preview

for map products

Collection Management Tool (CMT)

http://cmt.usgs.gov/

Emergency Operations Web Portal

http://eoportal.usgs.gov/

Emergency Operations Web Portal

Released in February 2015 New, updated, and reorganized web information New content areas include:

USGS/EROS capabilities for emergency response How to request and access imagery (CMT/HDDS) Data policy

Restricted vs public data Citations, copyrights, and logos

International Charter information

Comments? Questions?

Backup Slides

USGS Hazards Proposal - in work• Many possibilities!!

• Future proposal will likely focus on potential expanded support for USGS Hazards Science activities, including Hazards role in GEO and CEOS Disaster Working Group • Image collection and AOI requirements (CMT)

• High-resolution commercial, SAR, UAS, aerial photos, etc

• Data ingest, storage, and archive management (HDDS)• Ingest, archive, and data management

• Web hosting and access management

• Data portal hosting and single-point user access (HDDS)• Remotely sensed imagery

• Other geospatial datasets (e.g. DEM, US Topo, ground photos)

• Information service links (e.g. stream gages, fire perimeters...)

• Science products (e.g. maps, data, analysis, publications…)

Activating the Charter:

Authorized Users (AU)

The only bodies authorized to directly request the Charter to be activated are the Authorized Users - AUs (typically civil protection agencies, governmental relief organizations, or other authorities with a mandate related to disaster management).

Countries with Authorized Users(August 2013). Today 49 AUs from 41 countries.

Activation Distribution

As of August 8, 2013 – 381 Activations