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

Sat Dec 5 10:53:58 PST 2015

Rajan,

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 browser will be able to see the critical information you are providing.

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.

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!
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-11.htm

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (office)
(650) 269-2788 (cell)

From: K S Rajan [mailto:rajan at iiit.ac.in]
Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2015 6:48 AM
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); 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, 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

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From: "Suchith Anand" <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>>
To: "Patrick Hogan (ARC-PX)" <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>>, ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
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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

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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<mailto: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
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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

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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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