<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div lang="EN-US"><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top:0in"><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Andale Mono"">Who am I? – I’m a state highways engineer</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span style="font-family:"Andale Mono"">What am I trying to do? Predict where I’m most likely to have landslides in the next month.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span style="font-family:"Andale Mono"">What do I want/need? – I want rainfall data for the last 3 months over my state. And some soil moisture wouldn’t go amiss.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span style="font-family:"Andale Mono"">How do you solve this problem now? – I surf around a bunch of landslide portals, trying to suss out what kind of rainfall datasets they use.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span style="font-family:"Andale Mono"">What would the Easy Button for this look like? – I go to a single applications portal, click on “Data for Landslide Prediction” and get a list of all the datasets used by a variety of landslide models and other applications.</span></li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>I signed up for the discovery cluster listserv after the collab highlights, and missed the above until Jonathan's email today. Bill Teng, Arif Albayrak, and I have started down the path of crafting a use-case around the federal Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) protocol, which (depending on which agency you're from) requires a rapid assessment of the hazards arising from wildfires once the fire is out. Hazards include debris flow from heavy precip after the fire. The BAER action requires interagency (fed, state, local) teams to quickly assess the burn characteristics and assess whether disaster mitigation preventive actions (e.g. building berms to slow erosion) are required after a fire. I can imagine your (Chris) highways engineer being a member of the BAER team.</div><div><br></div><div>The BAER use-case is not yet complete, but we have another <a href="http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Tracing_how_Landsat_data_helps_foster_fire-adapted_communities_in_Colorado_through_data-driven,_science-informed_planning.">use-case on Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP: linked to federal and in some cases state law) that can be traced to landsat data</a>. (Tip: when you see this symbol <img src="cid:ii_k9vwd4d30" alt="image.png" width="24" height="22">, clicking on it takes you to a lower level concept map, some of which contain nodes and relationships that are annotated with terms from existing ontologies: for possible machine inferencing later). The traceability for this use-case is "shallow", as is: details are lacking on the exact types of landsat data products that the USGS EROS LP DAAC uses to compute its products that in turn get ingested by CO-WRAP (a Colorado web portal that can be used for CWPP generation). But the traceability between landsat and CO-WRAP is there. We know of at least one Colorado community (near the Colorado counties of Montezuma and La Plata) who has CO-WRAP to generate their CWPP, so that use case completes the traceability to back to landsat data. Once we get a rough BAER use-case (which will necessarily have to be traceable to data and models), we'll probably return to the CWPP one to create linkages between those two use cases because some of the BAER response actions are really mitigation which may really just be useful pre-wildfire if there's enough money floating around for disaster mitigation/prevention. If.</div><div><br></div><div>There're places in either use-cases above to do stuff that folks are interested in, so feel free to hop on. Here's the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xhWIAL7N6Y9fZy21IhwY64qMTZjNlgB5/view?usp=sharing">bigger picture of where all these concept maps fall into the scheme of the Resilience Genome thing</a> that Jonathan pointed out.</div><div><br></div><div>- BW</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>