NH43B-1893
Disaster Response Tools for Decision Support and Data Discovery – E-DECIDER and GeoGateway

Thursday, 17 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Margaret T Glasscoe1, Andrea Donnellan1, Jay W Parker1, Robert A Granat1, Gregory A Lyzenga1, Marlon Edwin Pierce2, Jun Wang2, Lisa Grant Ludwig3, Ronald T Eguchi4, Charles K Huyck4, ZhengHui Hu4, ZhiQiang Chen5, Mark R. Yoder6, John B Rundle6 and Anne Rosinski7, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)ImageCat, Inc., Long Beach, CA, United States, (5)University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, (6)University of California, Davis, CA, United States, (7)California Geological Survey Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Abstract:
Providing actionable data for situational awareness following an earthquake or other disaster is critical to decision makers in order to improve their ability to anticipate requirements and provide appropriate resources for response. E-DECIDER (Emergency Data Enhanced Cyber-Infrastructure for Disaster Evaluation and Response) is a decision support system producing remote sensing and geophysical modeling products that are relevant to the emergency preparedness and response communities and serves as a gateway to enable the delivery of actionable information to these communities. GeoGateway is a data product search and analysis gateway for scientific discovery, field use, and disaster response focused on NASA UAVSAR and GPS data that integrates with fault data, seismicity and models.

Key information on the nature, magnitude and scope of damage, or Essential Elements of Information (EEI), necessary to achieve situational awareness are often generated from a wide array of organizations and disciplines, using any number of geospatial and non-geospatial technologies. We have worked in partnership with the California Earthquake Clearinghouse to develop actionable data products for use in their response efforts, particularly in regularly scheduled, statewide exercises like the recent May 2015 Capstone/SoCal NLE/Ardent Sentry Exercises and in the August 2014 South Napa earthquake activation. We also provided a number of products, services, and consultation to the NASA agency-wide response to the April 2015 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake.

We will present perspectives on developing tools for decision support and data discovery in partnership with the Clearinghouse and for the Nepal earthquake. Products delivered included map layers as part of the common operational data plan for the Clearinghouse, delivered through XchangeCore Web Service Data Orchestration, enabling users to create merged datasets from multiple providers. For the Nepal response effort, products included models, damage and loss estimates, and aftershock forecasts that were posted to a NASA information site and delivered directly to end-users such as USAID, OFDA, World Bank, and UNICEF.

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