[Esip-disasters] Research Agenda in Intelligent Infrastructure to Enhance Disaster Management, Community Resilience and Public Safety

[Brian Wee]

>From the Computing Research Association's article at:
https://goo.gl/2FUfra titled
"Research Agenda in Intelligent Infrastructure to Enhance Disaster
Management, Community Resilience and Public Safety"


Research Agenda in Intelligent Infrastructure to Enhance Disaster
Management, Community Resilience and Public Safety
<http://cra.org/crn/2017/06/research-agenda-intelligent-infrastructure-enhance-disaster-management-community-resilience-public-safety/>
*By:* Michael Dunaway, Daniel Lopresti, and CCC Staff*In: *June 2017, Vol.
29/No.6 <http://cra.org/crn/category/2017/vol-29-no-6/>, Current Issue
<http://cra.org/crn/category/current/> /
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What if a Category 5 hurricane were heading towards New Orleans right now?
What would happen in 2017 that did not happen in 2005? We have learned a
great deal from the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and other major incidents,
and disaster prevention and recovery has dramatically improved in the last
12 years. Much of the improvement can be attributed to the integration of
technology with a “whole of community” approach to emergency management
that combines FEMA’s National Incident Management System, with advanced
data visualization, mapping, and decision systems, and a National Disaster
Recovery Framework targeting community recovery and not simply emergency
response.

Recently, the Computing Community Consortium  <http://cra.org/ccc/>(CCC) in
collaboration with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads
Association <http://www.ecedha.org/> (ECEDHA) released white papers
<http://cra.org/ccc/resources/ccc-led-whitepapers/#infrastructure> describing
a collective research agenda for intelligent infrastructure
<http://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/A-National-Research-Agenda-for-Intelligent-Infrastructure.pdf>.
We will be blogging about each paper over the next few weeks.

Here, we highlight the Research Agenda in Intelligent Infrastructure to
Enhance Disaster Management, Community Resilience and Public Safety
<http://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Research-Agenda-in-Intelligent-Infrastructure-to-Enhance-Disaster-Management-Community-Resilience-and-Public-Safety.pdf>
 paper.

As the nation becomes more connected, networked and technologically
sophisticated, new challenges and opportunities arise that demand a
rethinking of traditional approaches to public safety and emergency
management. The design and integration of intelligent
infrastructure—including embedded sensors, the Internet of Things (IoT),
advanced wireless information technologies, real-time data capture and
analysis (such as FEMA’s National Incident Management System), and
machine-learning-based decision support—holds the potential to greatly
enhance public safety, emergency management, disaster recovery, and overall
community resilience. At the same time, however, the integration of these
systems will add increasing complexity, requiring continuing research to
optimize the new technologies and manage potential vulnerabilities. The
continuing challenges of current and future disasters will require that the
U.S. engage in an ongoing program of research, technology development, and
strategic planning.

Research in intelligent infrastructure will save lives, improve disaster
resilience, and enhance the quality of life. It will also accelerate social
and economic recovery and care for victims in disaster-affected regions and
ensure continuity of governance and social stability. A roadmap would
create a common ground for researchers and a broad portfolio of research
grants managed through a network of regional university-based centers would
support formative experimentation and evaluation of progress aligned with
local environments and regional threats and vulnerabilities.

Below are some examples where priority should be placed in research on
emerging intelligent infrastructure:

Sensing and Data Collection

   - Research in computer vision to advance capabilities in environmental
   monitoring and interpretation of imagery from unmanned aerial, ground, or
   marine systems, and integration with personal mobile sensors embedded in
   smart phones–including the associated video feeds from social media
   networks.
   - Methods to enable resilient integration, operation, and security of
   next generation IoT devices and technologies, combining stationary sensors
   with mobile sensing deployed in the field.

Communication and Coordination

   - Seamless integration of current and future communication
   infrastructures, legacy systems and advanced long-range wireless
   technologies and public safety networks to ensure reliable exchange of
   crisis-related information.
   - Improved integration and coordination of multi-team systems of first
   responders (e.g., firefighters, law enforcement and emergency medical
   personnel, search and rescue teams, and emergency management).

Big Data Modeling frameworks, Analytics and Tools for Disaster Prediction
and Management

   - Probabilistic modeling of complex events to develop predictive
   analytics and enhance the capabilities for adaptive response, and to refine
   response planning.

Social Computing, Human Factors, and the Information Infrastructure

   - Research into disaster resilient communications and data management
   strategies to manage uncertainty across disaster warning, response, and
   recovery.
   - Natural interfaces and tools that enhance human capabilities to ask
   questions in a high-level manner that facilitate making decisions during
   extreme events.

Please read the paper
<http://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Research-Agenda-in-Intelligent-Infrastructure-to-Enhance-Disaster-Management-Community-Resilience-and-Public-Safety.pdf>
for
additional details on the research agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure to
enhance community resilience, public safety, and disaster management.

Stay tuned to learn more about the other intelligent infrastructure papers
<http://cra.org/ccc/resources/ccc-led-whitepapers/#infrastructure>!
*Tags:* CCC <http://cra.org/crn/tag/ccc/>, CCC Blog
<http://cra.org/crn/tag/ccc-blog/>, Intelligent Infrastructure
<http://cra.org/crn/tag/intelligent-infrastructure/>
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