[Ica-osgeo-labs] Hackathon at ECMWF to improve the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) | Reading, 16/17 Jan 2016

[K S Rajan]

Suchith, Patrick, 

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. 

-Rajan 

[1] http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/worldwind/?page_id=8 

> From: "Suchith Anand" <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> To: "Patrick Hogan (ARC-PX)" <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>,
> ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2015 4:29:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Hackathon at ECMWF to improve the Global Flood
> Awareness System (GloFAS) | Reading, 16/17 Jan 2016

> Hi Patrick,

> 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.

> 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.

> Suchith

> From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [patrick.hogan at nasa.gov]
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 11:30 PM
> To: Suchith Anand; Julia Wagemann; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Hackathon at ECMWF to improve the Global Flood
> Awareness System (GloFAS) | Reading, 16/17 Jan 2016

> Suchith,

> 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.

> This flood visualization program, from India’s International Institute of
> Information Technology, Hyderabad was part of this year’s Europa Challenge,

> http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015 (last project on page), this
> link, http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/worldwind/ . So OSGEO/FOSS4G (thank you!) is
> already supporting these efforts.

> This Europa Challenge team from India used the Java version of WorldWind, not
> the web version.

> 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.

> You cannot have a better platform than WebWorldWind for disaster resilience.

> The information using that platform is immediately accessible

> via any smart phone or other web browser capable device.

> It would also be excellent for any city to manage their infrastructure, field
> activities and data collection, etcetera.

> -Patrick

> (650) 604-5656 (office)

> (650) 269-2788 (cell)

> From: ica-osgeo-labs [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf
> Of Suchith Anand
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 7:51 AM
> To: Julia Wagemann; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Hackathon at ECMWF to improve the Global Flood
> Awareness System (GloFAS) | Reading, 16/17 Jan 2016

> Hi Julia,

> This hackathon for Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) that ECMWF is
> organising is very timely.

> I am saddened to see the destruction caused by floods in Chennai, India over the
> last few days http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-35003353

> It is a city where i lived many years back when i used to work for the Indian
> Institute of Technology Madras https://www.iitm.ac.in I have wonderful memories
> of the friendly and helpful people there and i am praying that everyone there
> are safe.

> It is very timely that as a global community, we need to pool together all our
> combined expertise to help mitigate extreme flood events.

> Suchith

> From: ica-osgeo-labs [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Julia
> Wagemann [Wagemann.Julia at gmx.de]
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 11:33 AM
> To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Hackathon at ECMWF to improve the Global Flood
> Awareness System (GloFAS) | Reading, 16/17 Jan 2016

> 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.

> 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.

> The hackathon will take place at ECMWF (Reading, UK) on 16/17 January 2016 - get
> more information under
> http://www.ecmwf.int/en/hackathon-announcement-global-flood-awareness-system .
> Don't miss this unique opportunity and get registered for #FloodHack:
> https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/floodhack-help-improve-the-global-flood-awareness-system-tickets-19819558834
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