WGISS Disaster Management IG

Lorant Czaran, UNOOSAPakorn Apapanth, Natalia Kussul,

Guoqing LiMay 14, 2009

WGISS 27Toulouse, France

Background In the WGISS 26 meeting WGISS members

presented interesting use cases for disaster management China had experience on supply of near Real Time

Data for Earthquake Response Ukraine uses Grid and Sensor Web Technologies for

Flood Management Thailand develops a Clearinghouse for Disaster

Management in SE Asia. UNOOSA found that these use cases are best practices

and can directly benefit UN and other users if working process model is well developed

The UN-SPIDER SpaceAID concept

Experiences

in China and Ukraine

02:28 pm, May 12, 2008Wenchuan, Sichuan, China

The epicenter of the earthquake, Wenchuan, is about 90 miles from Chengdu. The energy released is great than that of 500 atomic bombs. More than 85,000 people were confirmed dead, more than 20,000 still missing, and more than 4.7 million houses collapsed or heavily damaged.

Wenchuan earthquake case

At the very beginning of this event, many International Space Agencies showed their willingness to provide EO data assistance to China

WGISS played an important role in calling for such activities within a very short time

Over 1,500 image scenes supplied, less than 20% Charter

ftp ftp ftp

AgencyContribution countries

AgencyContribution countries

AgencyDisaster Country

AgencyDisaster Country

Next generation technologies--- grid based easy Portal

It is fast construction method!It is a very low-cost solution!It can overcome the CA problem

Rapid flood mapping from SAR satellite imagery Delivered within 24 h after data acquisition Satellite SAR instruments

ERS-2/SAR ENVISAT/ASAR RADARSAT-1/2

Ground validation Chinese territory on river

Huaihe 2008 => 95% matchof satellite observationsagainst field measurements

Output format OGC-compatible: WMS, WCS, KML etc

Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU (Ukraine) Experience in Flood Mapping

China, river Huaihe, 2007 Mozambique, river Zambezi, 2008

India and Nepal, river Koshi, 2008 Zambia, river Zambezi, 2009

Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU (Ukraine) Experience in Flood Mapping

Australia, river Norman, 2009

Vietnam, 2008

Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU (Ukraine) Experience in Flood Mapping

Delays in information on flood event

Delays in data delivery

Creation in Ukraine theCreation in Ukraine theUN-SPIDER Regional Support OfficeUN-SPIDER Regional Support Office

To date

ACTION WGISS-26-4: Lorant (organizer), Natalia, Guoqing,  Pakorn and Chuang to identify and contact the Agencies/individuals with which WGISS projects can interact to provide services during disasters. Use Grid and Wenchuan Earthquake experiences and recommendations to outline a clear process.

(As a contribution to DI-06-09) In the CEOS-GEO remapping Workshop,

WGISS was assigned to have an action to support DI-06-09: Use of Satellites for Risk Management

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DI-06-09_7: Use of Satellites for Risk Management

Analyze the response by WGISS members to supply near real-time data to the responding agency. Develop a working process model to integrate and make use of existing technologies within WGISS/CEOS. Implement a prototype to demonstrate use of these integrated technologies for the process model for the earthquake scenario.

CEOS Action Category: 2

Lead Agency: UNOOSA, GISTDA

Participating Agencies: NSAU, NRSCC

Constellation: N/A

Working Group: WGISS

POC: Lorant Czaran and Pakorn Apaphant

Deliverables: April 30, 2009 – Working Process to be developedJune 30, 2009 –Testing the modelSeptember 30, 2009 – Working Process defined at WGISS 28

November 2009 –Document and include in WGISS Report at the CEOS plenary

Proposed work plan for a Disaster management IG

Set up core team and volunteers Review new and past WGISS presentations

to identify and map all existing projects and prototypes of interest to the task

Attempt to organize these identified solutions in a complementary way, to ensure focused application with a view to sustainability

Match available services and applications with known user requirements, identify gaps

(continued) Develop recommendations as a group

based on identified issues and problems (see next slides)

Demonstrate the possibility of fast access to- and more automated processing of newly collected imagery during disasters, to concretely support the response phase

Build on existing efforts such as the ones presented, or the Caribbean or Namibia AIP initiatives, to extend their application

Start with a Test Facility

possible

TF Working Process

flowchart

WDMTF Working Flowchart

Disaster Event

Decision Indentifying

Action Announcement

Data Collection

FTP deploying

Middleware developing Portal developing

Portal Publish

ISDR UNSPIDER

WGISS Charter

benefit country

WDMTF User Flowchart

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security FTP

security FTP

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Space Agency

Space Agency

Space Agency

Space Agency

Expected TF first deliverables Refined Working Process model Mapping of all potential projects of

interest, and of required data sources WGISS Demo at upcoming CEOS

Plenary GEO task interaction Required data sources identified and

committed to participate Other?

Issues ASTER DEM availability, better resolution global DEM for

modeling Fast/easy access to base mid-resolution or SAR

reference images (Landsat, ASTER, Radarsat, TSX etc.) SAR data contributions? SAR images should be most

important for most disasters (earthquake, flood, storm) Open Access to imagery and data during serious

disasters, relaxed licensing terms Limited flexibility of existing mechanisms such as the

Charter Sample imagery availability for test facilities And more….

Questions to be resolved

How to indentify the major disaster events for response? How and when should the decision be taken? GLIDE?

How many disaster cases to follow every year in this stage? (one or two per-year, more….)

How to announce member agencies to contribute? (by teleconference, mail, or other?)

How fast is our target to respond? (day? week?) Who is the user of WDMTF testbed? (Affected country?

ISDR? UN?) Should WGISS contact the users directly? Which agency will donate the temporary operational

data storage, ftp space? How to organize the technical team to support the

development of WDMTF components? Data policy and copyright?

Recommendation to WGISS plenary

Interest Group? Encourage Agencies to support with

imagery the Test Facility effort phase

Support IG to identify means of operationalizing the developed Work Process for adequate response to future major disasters