[Esip-disasters] ESIP Disasters News & Next call is Sep. 6 at 4pm EDT/1pm PDT

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From: Karen Moe <karen.moe at nasa.gov<mailto:karen.moe at nasa.gov>>
Date: Friday, August 31, 2018 at 10:21 AM
To: ESIP Disasters <esip-disasters at lists.esipfed.org<mailto:esip-disasters at lists.esipfed.org>>
Subject: FW: ESIP Disasters News & Skipping this week's regular 1st Thursday telecom; Next call is Sep. 6 at 4pm EDT/1pm PDT

Greetings! Just a reminder that the regular Disasters Lifecycle cluster conference call is coming up next Thursday, Sep 6 at our regular time, 4pm eastern. Hope to have the agenda out early next week. Happy Labor Day! - Karen

From: Karen Moe <karen.moe at nasa.gov<mailto:karen.moe at nasa.gov>>
Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 9:06 PM
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Subject: ESIP Disasters News & Skipping this week's regular 1st Thursday telecom; Next call is Sep. 6 at 4pm EDT/1pm PDT

ESIP Disasters Lifecycle Cluster -

After a productive Disasters Lifecycle cluster session on July 17 at the ESIP Summer Meeting in Tucson, I’m skipping this week’s regularly scheduled telecom.  Our next call is the 1st Thursday of September 9/6 at the regular 4:00pm eastern/1:00pm pacific time.

Hopefully we can forward information about access to the presentations and recording before Sep. And the theme and agenda topics are copied below for the July 17, 2018 Disasters cluster session. And in place of our telecom, here are some notes of recent activities.

Attached please find a photo of the FUNding Friday submission (for $5K) that Jessica submitted on behalf of the cluster. Although we weren’t successful, we are still pursuing support to conduct the proposed study. Perhaps you can help?? Thanks to Lindsay, Luis, Bob and the others who joined the effort to convey the task idea. Jessica did a great job presenting the idea, but there was a lot of competition; also the technology wasn’t new, just the application. Background: During the Disasters session on ORLs, a next logical step arose: to use meaningful terms, a vocabulary, easily recognized by the user community, with which to flag data sets (especially earth observations) for discovery. This addresses the issue of trying to ask end users ‘what do you need?’ when they have no familiarity with what we’ve got. This miscommunication also occurs when users describe their use cases, which is why we have an interview phase as we discussed last year. The proposed task involves identifying a ‘text corpus’ (like after-event reports and websites), and extracting & map terminology and meanings with Natural Language Processor (NLP) software, as the basis for a semantic model.

Interestingly, some of us attended the NOAA-hosted OGC organized Disasters CDS Workshop<http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogcevent/180724noaacds?utm_source=phplist598&utm_medium=email&utm_content=HTML&utm_campaign=OGC+Invites+you+to+the+Disasters+CDS+Workshop+at+the+NOAA+Auditorium%2C+Silver+Spring%2C+MD> in the DC metro area the following week. There were many panelists addressing a plethora of issues: Disaster Resilience, Planning/Response/Recovery (Flooding, Hurricane, Fires, Earthquakes, Diseases), and Capabilities/Services. Terry Idol and Luis Bermudez of OGC, who spoke with us about the April workshop hosted by NASA Ames, were key organizers, and Tom Moran, Executive Director of the All Hazards Consortium (AHC), was a panelist discussing hurricane response/recovery and the Fleet Response Working Group efforts, including our joint work on ORLs. Throughout the first day there was a lot of discussion about the need to clearly and efficiently communicate among federal-state-local public-private sectors during disaster events and a focus on being prepared in advance. The issue of a lack of a common vocabulary across disciplines and sectors was discussed, with some people noting that end users would be amenable to adopting common terms and others stating that would be unlikely! I came away encouraged that our FUNding Friday proposal would be quite valuable in tackling this recognized communication problem.

We’ve been asked to discuss our Disasters Cluster work as part of the new ESIP webinar series on, “The Socioeconomic Value of Earth Science Data, Information, and Applications.” Several of us participated in the introductory webinar to explore the value and benefits that Earth Science data brings to society, including its contributions to economics and quality of life. We’ve been invited to present the November webinar, tentatively scheduled for Nov. 15 from 12:30-1:30 pm ET. The topic would be around our on-going work in Data Driven Decision Making with the disasters community. Please let me know if you would like to be involved.

One final note…today is the deadline for submitting AGU abstracts and I plan to submit one tonight to address our collaboration with the AHC to emphasize our work on trusted data. My working title is “Operational Readiness Levels: A Trust Metric for Operational Data.” I spoke with a few people at the Summer Meeting to list as co-authors but if you are interested, please let me know. I can modify the co-authors in the presentation/poster at the AGU Fall Meeting in DC and welcome more participation. It will be submitted in Session Title: IN001. Accelerating scientific discovery through data, software, workflow, service, and repository evaluation.

That’s all for now! Enjoy the end of summer 2018!
Karen

July 17, 2018 Disasters Cluster Session at the ESIP Summer Meeting

 Operational Readiness Levels: Establishing Trusted Data to Improve Situational Awareness<http://meetings.esipfed.org/event/Eyq2/operational-readiness-levels-establishing-trusted-data-to-improve-situational-awareness#>

The Disasters Lifecycle cluster, in collaboration with the All Hazards Consortium, is developing Operational Readiness Levels for data-driven decision-making support to improve situational awareness. The AHC’s Sensitive Information Sharing Environment (SISE) Working Group recently communicated the ORL concept to the AHC members, including federal and state agencies as well as private sector companies supporting a broad range of emergency management services. Initial criteria for the ORLs, a flowchart assessment tool, and data examples were demonstrated. We received enthusiastic feedback on the value of the ORL concept, noting that it filled an important void. Work continues on refining strategies and criteria for assessing candidate datasets for specific operational use cases. During this session we plan to address several challenges in meeting the trust criteria for establishing ORLs – not only for specific use cases but also across user applications and communities.

Agenda

  *   Enabling Discovery and Access to Trusted Data, Karen Moe/NASA ESTO Emeritus
  *   NASA Support of 2017 CA Wildfires: Lessons Learned, Maggi Glasscoe/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  *   SISE ORL Model Implementation Approach and Pilot, Kari Hicks/Duke Energy
  *   Displaying ORL Levels in GeoCollaborate, Dave Jones/StormCenter Communications, Inc.
  *   End User Community Readiness Ranking – Augmented Metadata, Robert Downs/CIESIN Columbia Univ.

PS: In case you noticed the new distribution list, the regular ESIP listserv (ESIP Disasters <esip-disasters at lists.esipfed.org<mailto:esip-disasters at lists.esipfed.org>>) is being maintained but will be available later.

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