GSFC Disaster Working GroupDecember 20th, 2016

Dalia Kirschbaum & Miguel RomanGSFC Disaster Coordinators

Dalia.b.Kirschbaum@nasa.govMiguel.o.roman@nasa.gov

Agenda• 11:00-11:15 Updates from NASA Disaster

Response, etc. and updates from the group• 11:15-11:30 Updates from Group• 11:30-11:50 Landslide Presentation - Dalia

Kirschbaum/Thomas Stanley• 11:50-12:00 Discussion of future path of group

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Updates• 2 New hires have been brought on at HQ to support disaster

response• Carver Struve (replacing Brett who replaced Scott)• Jessica Seepersad (starting in January)

• Response Activities:• New Zealand Earthquake• Fiji Earthquake• Tennessee Fires• Pat Cappelaere’s update

• Website:• NEW website https://disasters.nasa.gov

• Meetings/Workshops:• Past meetings• Upcoming meetings

• Updates on funding opportunities:• ROSES Calls• USAID PEER

• Send us your highlight slides! 3

New Zealand Earthquake – M7.8, Nov 14th

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38076443

Coseismicinterferogramsproduced by the NASA-JPL ARIA team using Sentinel-1 data

Landslide susceptibility and Global Landslide Catalog points provided by NASA/GSFC

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Fires have been burning across the southeast U.S. for weeks, fueled by the region's worst drought in nearly a decade. Parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina have been burning, leading to poor air quality, increased hospital visits, burned structures and loss of lives.

MODIS Terra November 27 2016

MODIS Terra November 29 2016Extreme fire in the southeast: A NASA story

Post-fire analysis have been requested from NASA Applied Sciences Program by the National Park Service

Slides provided by Amber Soja, LARC

Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) on ISS

http://cats.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Exceptional SouthEast US drought, November 15th 2016

Blue lineCALIPSO overpass 12h prior to MODIS image.

J.-P. Vernier

- Fires in SouthEast US (Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina) seen by MODIS resulting from an exceptional drought

FIRES

Smoke

MODIS/Aqua

CALIPSO Satellite curtain

• Aerosol layers (red) over North Carolina and South Carolina below 2 km height• Optical properties consistent with smoke

Modified from J.-P. Vernier

Air Quality deterioration over the Carolinas and Georgia due to low-lying smoke.

Burnt Area: 15,653 AcresLocation: Sevier County,

TennesseeCause: Human

Incident Team Type: IMT Type 1Containment Status: 10% contained

Photo from CNN main page today with headline, “So much of Gatlinburg gone”.

Link to CNN Update: http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/29/us/gatlinburg-

fires/index.html

Flames tore through the Great Smoky Mountains, killing at least four people, scorching hundreds of homes and businesses and sending more than 14,000 fleeing from the resort towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge.

Historic downtown and Aquarium that housed 11,000 survived.

Report for Chimney 2 fireReport Date: 30-NOV-16

Great Smoky Mountains National ParkBased on Incident Status Summary (ICS-209)

Start Date: 11/23/2016 Expected Containment: 31-Dec-16

Fire Danger has substantially decreased over the last day

Most of this large fire area has seen significant rain in the past 36 hours reducing the ERC values below the 75th percentile.

A cold front will move across the region today and has already started bringing heavy rains and strong winds to the area. Expect precipitation amounts ranging from an inch to nearly 2 inches through Wednesday from two storms. Daytime temps will range from the low 70's in the southern portion of the region to the 60's further north. Winds will turn westerly and decrease today behind the cold front.

With the passing of the cold front and associated rain, Significant Fire Potential has dropped to low across most of the region. With the drying trend ahead, the area to watch for increased fire potential is southern Georgia

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Disaster Working GroupDec 20th, 2016

How To Better Respond To Future Events?NextGEOSS Approach

Central vs Distributed ArchitectureGlobal Flood Monitoring Status

Pat CappelaereStu Frye

How To Better Respond To Future Events

• Centralized Portal• Single Point Failure

• Resilience ?• Trust ?

• Costly• Slow

• Disconnects Publishers (Scientists) and Consumers (end-users)

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Alternate Hybrid Distributed Architecture

• No Single Point Failure• Faster

• Cheaper• Safer• Publishers Connected to

Consumers

• Consumers Part of Solution• We can still have Visualization

Portal

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Not Necessarily Incompatible

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Portal-to-Portal ConnectionMay Not be Easy Nor Cheap

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GMAO GEOS-5 : Precip Forecast

PMM: GPM Precipitation ActualsLandslide ForecastGFMS Flood NowcastGEOS-5 Precipitation Forecast

UMD GFMS: Flood Forecast (M) 1/8 degGPM Precipitation ActualsGEOS-5 Precipitation Forecast

OU EF5/CREST (M): Flood ForecastGPM Precipitation ActualsNOAA GFS Precipitation Forecast

Dartmouth: Flood Maps, PrecipitationL8, MODIS, Radar…

PDC

RCMRD

RCCP

World BankRed Cross…LANCE:

MODIS Flood MapsOMI, VIIRS… SPoRT:

GOES-R, JPSS, MODIS, WRF…

CURRENT STATUS USGS: L8,..

NOAA: GFS Precip

CSA: Radaarsat,..

IN-Progress

Publisher Implemented[But Not the Distributed Piece of It]

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NextGEOSS

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Meetings/Workshops

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Past meetings/workshops:• High Mountain Hazards meetings, Sunday before AGU• ESRI meeting on Saturday before AGU, follow-up meeting planned• NASA-Rio Workshop on Climate Change impacts and hazards, NASA GISS (Nov. 14-

16th)• Health and Air Quality Showcase, GSFC, November 17th

Upcoming meetings:• 2017 ESIP Winter meeting, 11-13 January, Bethesda, MD

(http://meetings.esipfed.org/winter-meeting-2017) • American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 22–26 January 2017, Seattle,

WA (https://annual.ametsoc.org/2017/)• NCSE 2017: Integrating Environment and Health , 24-26 January, Washington, DC

(http://www.ncseconference.org/)• SATSUMMIT, 31 January, Washington, DC (https://satsummit.io/), free

registration for Government Employees• AAAS Forum on Science & Technology Policy, 27-28 March, Washington DC

(http://www.aaas.org/page/forum-science-technology-policy)

Training• ARSET: Advanced Webinar: Land Cover

Classification with Satellite Imagery• Dates: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 to Tuesday,

February 7, 2017• Times: 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. EST (UTC-5)

• https://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/land/webinars/advanced-land-classification

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Funding OpportunitiesTitle Solicitation NOI Due Proposal Due

Advanced Information Systems Technology

NNH16ZDA001N-AIST Dec 21, 2016 Feb 16, 2017

Carbon Monitoring System NNH16ZDA001N-CMS Jan 05, 2017 Feb 24, 2017

Group on Earth Observations Work Programme

NNH16ZDA001N-GEO Jan 13, 2017 Feb 28, 2017

Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER)

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/peer/index.htm

pre-proposals for this cycle is January 13, 2017

PAKISTAN - UNITED STATES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION PROGRAM

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/pakistan/index.htm

Friday, January 13, 2017

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Updates from the group?

Presentations for next meeting?

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