[ESIP-all] ESIP Webinar TODAY at 3 pm ET: DGGS in Action: Provision of Rapid Response During Australian Bushfires

Megan Carter megancarter at esipfed.org
Thu Mar 12 11:15:11 EDT 2020


The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP <http://esipfed.org/>) present
the webinar:

Discrete Global Grid System in Action: Provision of Rapid Response During
Australian Bushfires and Other Applications

Everything has a location. Location can be defined using descriptive terms
(e.g. place names), geometry (e.g. geographic coordinates) and/or index
notations (e.g. statistical boundaries). However, existing approaches and
disconnected infrastructures limit our ability to discover, access and
integrate spatial data across organisation and jurisdiction boundaries to
produce up-to-date reliable information. The Location Index project (LOC-I)
aims to introduce a consistent way to access, analyse and use location data
to support the effective integration of socio-economic, statistical and
environmental data from multiple data providers to support the spatially
enabled delivery of Government policies and initiatives.

The devastation caused by the Australian Bushfires highlighted the need for
a new approach for rapid data integration. The total burnt area during
Autumn-Summer 2019-2020 is 72,000 square miles, which is equivalent to a
half of Montana or North Dakota and Delaware areas combined. Rapid response
in provision of information on areas affected by the bushfires was required
to support evaluation of the impact, and also planning the recovery process
and support for families, businesses and the environment. This presentation
will discuss application of the Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) in
bringing together diverse complex information from multiple sources to
support the response process. The presentation will also discuss testing of
the DGGS capability in other use cases.


*Speakers:* Shane Crossman & Irina Bastrakova of Geoscience Australia

*Hosted by:* ESIP's Information Technology & Interoperability Committee
<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interoperability_and_Technology/Tech_Dive_Webinar_Series>
(led by Dave Blodgett, USGS)

*When: *TODAY Thursday March 12th, 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET
*Join: *https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/533510693
*You can also dial in using your phone:* +1 (408) 650-3123 (Access Code:
533-510-693)



This webinar is part of ESIP's 2020 Webinar Series following the year theme
of "*Putting Data to Work: Building Public-Private Partnerships to Increase
Resilience & Enhance the Socioeconomic Value of Data.*"


About the Webinar Series

ESIP's 2020 Webinar Series moves beyond data discovery to explore how the
Earth science community is putting data to work, using and reusing data in
new and creative applications, creating derived products and showcasing
examples of data integration in order to enhance the resilience and enhance
the socioeconomic value of data. In addition, playing on the double meaning
of work, putting data to work will highlight public-private partnerships as
we explore how data usage increases the value of Earth science research to
other economic sectors.


This is a theme that resonates with many ESIP Collaboration Areas and
Partners, so instead of having a separate webinar track for the theme, we
are collaborating with these groups within normal monthly telecon schedules
to build connections across the ESIP community. Exploring the challenges
and opportunities of these examples, we hope to derive some patterns that
we can all use as we continue making data matter.
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