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<div>Patrick - frequency of extreme weather events are increasing which is very worrying. Really sad to see the devastation caused by heavy flooding across parts of Northern England and Scotland happening now by Storm Desmond. We all need to work together as
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<div>Rajan - i will be interested to hear updates on your work. I am presenting ideas on OpenCitySmart this week and i will acknowledge and include this video of your research. I will be in contact.</div>
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<div>I have now decided to do my best  to get as many colleagues globally who have the expertise to contribute their expertise to the Global Flood Awareness System.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 05, 2015 6:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> K S Rajan; Suchith Anand<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Great work you are up to! If possible, I’ll hope you have a chance to bring some aspect of this ‘4D Water Rise’ visualization to the web version of WorldWind.
 That will allow the larger community to easily see the prospective danger zones and routes for evacuation ahead of the event, and during the event be quickly informed of danger zones, as well as help coordinate disaster response. Any mobile device with a web
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Any chance that you might work with a computer science department at one of the universities in Bangladesh, apparently there are 37 public universities and
 45 private ones there, so it would seem there is plenty of opportunity, not to mention the obvious need. NASA would certainly be willing to work with any international efforts to address this increasingly severe circumstance. There are areas there regularly
 experiencing 300 to 500 centimeters of rain in a year! This is an extraordinary disaster, even without a high tide or a storm to exacerbate things.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Working together we can excite fantastic results and show the world we are one family, which in fact we are, given there is more genetic variation in a single
 tribe of chimps (our nearest relative) than across the entire human race. Essentially we are clones!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">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].</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">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.
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 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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"> 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; <a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">
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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
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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><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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 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><span style="color:black"></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">You cannot have a better platform than WebWorldWind for disaster resilience.</span><span style="color:black"></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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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Suchith Anand<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 04, 2015 7:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Julia Wagemann; <a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">
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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><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">
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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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"><a href="https://www.iitm.ac.in" target="_blank">https://www.iitm.ac.in</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">I have wonderful memories of the friendly and helpful people there</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">
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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><span style="color:black"></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]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 04, 2015 11:33 AM<br>
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<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><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">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><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">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><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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