NH23B:
Using Earth Observations and Imagery Analysis for Risk and Resilience Assessment, Risk Communication, and Monitor Response and Recovery Efforts I


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Session ID#: 62948

Session Description:
Due to rise in extreme events and their devastating impacts on social and physical systems, building resilience and communicating information about potential risks of these events have become increasingly important. The availability of large volume of high spatial and temporal resolution imagery has enabled using remote sensing and geospatial technologies along with other data sets and models to answer critical questions and inform decision about the four components of a disaster’s life cycle – risk, resilience, response and recovery. This session highlights using remote sensing, imagery analytics, geospatial visualization technologies, communication platforms and methodologies, and earth observations to (i) understand physical processes of natural hazards that occur at the interface between hazards and human activities, (ii) assess risk and resilience for emergency management, (iii) visualize and map societal impacts of disasters, and (iv) communicate information about extreme events to a diverse audience to help with preparedness and decision making activities.
Primary Convener:  Bandana Kar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geospatial Science and Human Security Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  John J Murray1, Andrew Molthan2 and Jordan R Bell2, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States(2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Branch, Huntsville, United States
Primary Liaison:  David S Green, NASA Headquarters, Application Science - Wildfires, Washington, United States
Chairs:  Bandana Kar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geospatial Science and Human Security Division, Oak Ridge, United States, John J Murray, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Andrew Molthan, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Branch, Huntsville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jordan R Bell, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Branch, Huntsville, United States
Index Terms:

4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4332 Disaster resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4337 Remote sensing and disasters [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Flood Water Depth Mapping Based on Dual-Polarimetric Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery (356507)
Minjeong Jo, USRA/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Batuhan Osmanoglu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Integrating NASA Earth Observations to Monitor Thunderstorms and Assess Lightning Exposure and Risk in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan Region (443462)
Christine Evans, NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Essence Raphael, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Sisam Shrestha, NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, Marshall Space Flight Center, Hampton, United States
Using Polar-orbiting Satellite Information to Support the Non-Weather Community (Invited) (442829)
Lori A. Schultz1,2, Jordan R Bell3 and Andrew Molthan3, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)NASA Marshall space Flight Center, Earth Science Branch, Huntsville, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Branch, Huntsville, United States
DustWatch: A Mobile Application for Dust Storm Early Warning by Youth Citizen Scientists to Reduce Highway Accidents (458699)
Bill W Tong, Youth Citizen Scientists, Atholton High School, Columbia, MD, United States, Kevin Liu, River Hill High School, Clarksville, MD, United States, Jeffrey Tong, Atholton High School, Columbia, MD, United States, Alex Xie, Gilman Upper School, Baltimore, MD, United States, Dexin Zhang, GST Inc., NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, United States and Edgar Nzokwe, Booz Allen Hamilton, Annapolis Junction, United States
Citizen-Science’s Role in Flooding Resiliency: Tracing Today’s King Tides to Validate a Street-Level Hydrodynamic Model and Responsibly Reduce Risk for the Floods of Tomorrow (354428)
Dr. Derek Loftis, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States and David Forrest, VIMS, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
How Social and Behavioral Science Research Clears the Clouds to Effective Communication of Extreme Weather Events (Invited) (351417)
Gina Eosco, Arlington, VA, United States

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