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Decision Support Systems for Managing Natural Hazards
Paul Chan, Xue Liu, Menas Kafatos, and Hesham El‐AskaryChapman University
Joint US‐Egypt Workshop on Space Technology and Geoinformation for Sustainable Development
Cairo, Egypt14‐17 June 2010
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Information flow for decision making
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System architecture
Prototypes
• Current: hurricanes, wildfires, agricultural disaster
• Other potentials: dust storms, sea level rise, droughts
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Hurricane module
Historical hurricane tracks
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Hurricane risk in Gulf Coast counties with major infrastructures
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Incorporating real‐time forecast information
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… and forecasted storm surge
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… and areas/infrastructures impacted by storm surge
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… and affected transportation routes
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Wildfire module**
Risk management
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Risk management
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Risk management
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Early detection
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Fire modeling/prediction
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Fire modeling/prediction
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Decision support tool for fighting wildfires
Continental scale atmospheric model
Fire behavior model
Regional scale atmospheric
model
Operational concept
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Santa Barbara Wildfire Simulation(Between 14 Nov 1500 to 15 Nov 1000)
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Fire perimeter at 1500, Nov 14
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Predicted fire spread at 1 hour interval
Santa Barbara Wildfire Simulation(Between 14 Nov 1500 to 15 Nov 1000)
Recovery management
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The food/ag supply chain
Simulating the economy
Business sector transactionsamong states; calculated from data• 600 million B2B transactions• 7.5 million B2Final-user• 50 thousand international
Dairy
Grain
Fuel
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AK AL AR WI...50 states and DC132 businesssectors
Ag data• Ag Census• Ag Resource Mgmt SurveyTransportation data• Commodity flow survey• Freight Analysis FrameworkCommerce data• State Export Statistics• Economic CensusLabor data• Consumer Expenditure Survey• Employment/Income StatisticsEnergy data• Wholesale Electric Database
Simulating the impacts of a disaster event
Economic impacts: Economic loss; Unemployment
Damage estimates in a particular sector due to a disaster event12
Dairy
Grain
Fuel
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Downstream effects
Dairy
Grain
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Upstream effects
Animals Farms Market Value Disposal Cost
Dairy 15,680 218 $20,718,611 $1,215,200
Beef 172,582 4,308 $95,570,845 $13,375,120
Hogs 1,924,972 597 $24,044,879 $39,480,469
Sheep 2,765 123 $197,781 $245,210
Goats 7,378 443 $534,960 $132,649
Total 2,115,999 5,246 $140,532,116 $54,315,999
A disaster eventScenario-basedanalysis
Information formitigation
Short-term economicimpact assessment
Long-term economicimpact assessment
Estimates of directdamages
Hours day 1 week weeks
Currentcapability
SAS-USAcapability
This approach enables speedy decision‐making inemergency management
Economic loss due to the destruction of all cloven-hoofed animals within a 10 mile zone
Cloven-hoofed animals within 10 mile quarantine zone in Duplin County, NC
Estimates of the immediate economic loss in a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
Number of Animals Number of Farms Market Value of Animals Disposal Costs Output Generation Employment at RiskDairy 49 3 64,211 3,766 11,900 1Other Cattle 5,559 127 3,078,562 430,844 7,981,000 1Hogs 812,820 159 38,365,095 62,993,535 99,461,000 11Sheep 21 1 1,304 1,616 3,000 0Goats 244 16 15,261 18,921 40,000 0All 818,693 306 41,524,433 63,448,682 107,496,900 13
At-risk assets within quarantine zone
Estimates of the upstream and downstream economic impact of the foot‐and‐mouth disease outbreak
Market costs
Downstream impact
Upstream impact
Day 1
Day 5
Day 21
Projected spread of an FMD by transportation
Projected daily economic losses of the outbreak
Simulated impacts help management make decisions
Simulated state-to-state spread and the associated economic impacts of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
North Carolina animal exports: potential transmission of FMD