<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Suchith, Patrick,<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Well, we are now working with one of the Governments to take this work forward to develop a near-real world flood visualization, as shown in [1]. We hope this effort will help integrate time-based visualization of the flood flows over the region by putting together both hydrological model run on high-resolution DEMs and CityGML models of the neighbourhood. While the current model does a loose coupling between the flooding simulation and 4D visualization, we are now working on integrating these further. <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>-Rajan<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>[1] http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/worldwind/?page_id=8<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Suchith Anand" <Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><br><b>To: </b>"Patrick Hogan (ARC-PX)" <patrick.hogan@nasa.gov>, ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, December 5, 2015 4:29:47 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Hackathon at ECMWF to improve the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) | Reading, 16/17 Jan 2016<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">
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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Hi Patrick,
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<div>Thanks for these updates from Europa challenge. This is exactly why initiatives like Europa challenge are very important as it will contribute to global efforts in helping equip skills to the next generation to help build resilient cities and communities
worldwide . These students from different countries who build tools for a range of applications from earthquake forecasting to flood modelling are all contributing their skills and knowledge to build a better and safer world.</div>
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<div>WorldWind and other OSGeo/FOSS tools will help city and municipal administrations globally to have the tools needed for managing their activities and be better prepared for climate change and save precious lives.</div>
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<div id="divRpF742206" style="direction: ltr; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;" color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [patrick.hogan@nasa.gov]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 04, 2015 11:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Suchith Anand; Julia Wagemann; ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Hackathon at ECMWF to improve the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) | Reading, 16/17 Jan 2016<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Suchith,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">That certainly increases our sensitivity to the problem by having been part of that community. Let’s hope we can do better to prepare for more of this oncoming
climate change freight train. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">This flood visualization program, from India’s International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad was part of this year’s Europa Challenge,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><a href="http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015" target="_blank">http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015</a> (last project on page), this
link, <a href="http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/worldwind/" target="_blank">http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/worldwind/</a>. So OSGEO/FOSS4G (thank you!) is already supporting these efforts.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">This Europa Challenge team from India used the Java version of WorldWind, not the web version.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">The Java version would be good for a heavyweight app needing CPU muscle and high bandwidth, but for emergency response, the web version would serve better
and could still readily visualize the projected (or actual) flood zone.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">You cannot have a better platform than WebWorldWind for disaster resilience.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">The information using that platform is immediately accessible
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">via any smart phone or other web browser capable device.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">It would also be excellent for any city to manage their infrastructure, field activities and data collection, etcetera.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ica-osgeo-labs [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Suchith Anand<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 04, 2015 7:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Julia Wagemann; ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Hackathon at ECMWF to improve the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) | Reading, 16/17 Jan 2016</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Hi Julia,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">This </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:black">hackathon for Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) that ECMWF is
organising is very timely. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">I am saddened to see the destruction caused by floods in Chennai, India over the last few days <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-35003353" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-35003353</a> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">It is a city where i lived many years back when i used to work for the Indian Institute of Technology Madras <a href="https://www.iitm.ac.in" target="_blank">https://www.iitm.ac.in</a> I
have wonderful memories of the friendly and helpful people there and i am praying that everyone there are safe.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">It is very timely that as a global community, we need to pool together all our combined expertise to help mitigate extreme flood events.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"> ica-osgeo-labs [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
on behalf of Julia Wagemann [Wagemann.Julia@gmx.de]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 04, 2015 11:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ica-osgeo-labs] Hackathon at ECMWF to improve the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) | Reading, 16/17 Jan 2016</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:black">Want to develop tools to save lives? ECMWF is organising a hackathon on the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) to make the system more flexible and easier
to use.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:black">GloFAS provides global forecasts of extreme flood events and is used by international institutes like the Red Cross and World Food Programme as an information
tool during crisis.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:black">The hackathon will take place at ECMWF (Reading, UK) on 16/17 January 2016 - get more information under
<a href="http://www.ecmwf.int/en/hackathon-announcement-global-flood-awareness-system" target="_blank">
http://www.ecmwf.int/en/hackathon-announcement-global-flood-awareness-system</a>.<br>
Don't miss this unique opportunity and get registered for #FloodHack: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/floodhack-help-improve-the-global-flood-awareness-system-tickets-19819558834" target="_blank">
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/floodhack-help-improve-the-global-flood-awareness-system-tickets-19819558834</a></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p>
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