E-DECIDER: Using Earth Science Data and Modeling Tools to Develop Decision Support for Earthquake Disaster Response

Glasscoe, Margaret; Wang, Jun; Pierce, Marlon; Yoder, Mark R.; Parker, Jay; Burl, Michael C.; Stough, T.; Granat, Robert; Donnellan, Andrea; Rundle, John B.; Ma, Yu; Bawden, G. W.; Yuen, Karen

doi:10.1007/s00024-014-0824-9

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“…In contrast, for pandemic events and natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis and wildfires, there is limited time to learn about the event before acting. For such "short time-scale" events, while we can plan and deploy defense strategies beforehand and make systems more resilient, it is not until the event occurs that a disaster management plan can be enacted (Borchers, 2005;Marcot et al, 2012;Glasscoe et al, 2015;Ai et al, 2016;Lourenço et al, 2021). For these short time-scale events, community values can still be considered through a structured decision-making process, but it must happen in advance as part of "preparedness" activities (e.g., Degeling et al, 2021).…”

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From Climate Change to Pandemics: Decision Science Can Help Scientists Have Impact

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Scientific knowledge and advances are a cornerstone of modern society. They improve our understanding of the world we live in and help us navigate global challenges including emerging infectious diseases, climate change and the biodiversity crisis. However, there is a perpetual challenge in translating scientific insight into policy. Many articles explain how to better bridge the gap through improved communication and engagement, but we believe that communication and engagement are only one part of the puzzle. There is a fundamental tension between science and policy because scientific endeavors are rightfully grounded in discovery, but policymakers formulate problems in terms of objectives, actions and outcomes. Decision science provides a solution by framing scientific questions in a way that is beneficial to policy development, facilitating scientists’ contribution to public discussion and policy. At its core, decision science is a field that aims to pinpoint evidence-based management strategies by focussing on those objectives, actions, and outcomes defined through the policy process. The importance of scientific discovery here is in linking actions to outcomes, helping decision-makers determine which actions best meet their objectives. In this paper we explain how problems can be formulated through the structured decision-making process. We give our vision for what decision science may grow to be, describing current gaps in methodology and application. By better understanding and engaging with the decision-making processes, scientists can have greater impact and make stronger contributions to important societal problems.

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“…We suggest that when PolSAR images are available, fire perimeters may be drawn with greater accuracy, particularly in areas remote from road access. PolSAR images render competent images of biomass depletion through cloud and smoke during fires as demonstrated for the Colby Fire 2014 (Glasscoe et al., 2016). Processing and quality control of images took weeks for the UAVSAR flight that imaged the Colby Fire in progress, a latency too great for real‐time fire support.…”

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“…Mentioned above are means of fruitfully combining PolSAR maps with repeat-pass UAVSAR products and optical images for assessment of damage and risk of debris flows (Donnellan et al, 2018). Public web-based tools for combining diverse mapped data types have great potential for research, disaster management and public awareness (Glasscoe et al, 2015;Donnellan et al, 2021).…”

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“…NASA airborne synthetic aperture radar polarimetry dates back several decades, and among the first reported merits is the identification of HV cross‐polarized returns with volume scatter for discriminating vegetation features (Evans et al., 1986) The first study of fire scars with UAVSAR products describes PolSAR image changes in successive visits bracketing the 2014 Colby fire (Glasscoe et al., 2016). There it is pointed out that because radar imaging penetrates clouds and smoke, potential rapid products should become an important complimentary source of information for fire management along with current use of Landsat and other optical mapping products.…”

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Survey of Transverse Range Fire Scars in 10 Years of UAVSAR Polarimetry

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The Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination (GeoMAC) has been collecting and storing data on wildland fire perimeters since August 2000 (Walters et al., 2011), although the continuing collection since 2020 has been transferred to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). The GeoMAC repository retains the perimeter information of interest for this work. According to the United States Forest Service (https://www.fs.fed.us/ nwacfire/home/terminology.html), the fire perimeter is defined to be the entire outer edge or boundary of a fire. But fire boundaries are fractal in nature, so approximations are made for convenience. According to https://www.nwcg.gov/course/ffm/mapping/51-burn-area-and-perimeter, "Because fires often burned in unusual shapes such as fingers, the perimeter of a fire can be approximated by assembling a combination of known shapes and lines."In addition, fires may be more or less severe, depending on fuel density, wind speed, topography, weather, and other factors (e.g., Countryman, 1964;Harris et al., 2017). It is expected that some fires in the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) polarimetry (herein PolSAR) record will show nearly complete elimination of brushy or leafy biomass within a fire perimeter, while others will be less complete, perhaps even showing distinct patches of destruction among clusters of intact trees and brush.Polarimetry is performed using the L-band (23.84 cm) UAVSAR system, mounted under a NASA Gulfstream III aircraft. The PolSAR product artificially colors the image with blue for VV, red for HH, and green for the HV return. In a typical image, these three polarized returns, respectively, indicate (blue) rough surface scatterers, (red) double-bounce scatterers such as buildings or tree trunks, and (green) volume scatters,

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“…The advantages of adopting OGC standards for both data products and web services have been utilized by downstream projects, such as E-DECIDER (Emergency Data Enhanced Cyber-Infrastructure for Disaster Evaluation and Response; Glasscoe et al 2014 ; Glasscoe et al 2015 ), which employs remote sensing imagery, geodetic data, and tools from GeoGateway to automatically generate change detection products, critical infrastructure and deformation calculations triggered by an earthquake event.…”

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Improving access to geodetic imaging crustal deformation data using GeoGateway

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GeoGateway (http://geo-gateway.org) is a web-based interface for analysis and modeling of geodetic imaging data and to support response to related disasters. Geodetic imaging data product currently supported by GeoGateway include Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) daily position time series and derived velocities and displacements and airborne Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) from NASA’s UAVSAR platform. GeoGateway allows users to layer data products in a web map interface and extract information from various tools. Extracted products can be downloaded for further analysis. GeoGateway includes overlays of California fault traces, seismicity from user selected search parameters, and user supplied map files. GeoGateway also provides earthquake nowcasts and hazard maps as well as products created for related response to natural disasters. A user guide is present in the GeoGateway interface. The GeoGateway development team is also growing the user base through workshops, webinars, and video tutorials. GeoGateway is used in the classroom and for research by experts and non-experts including by students.

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E-DECIDER: Using Earth Science Data and Modeling Tools to Develop Decision Support for Earthquake Disaster Response

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From Climate Change to Pandemics: Decision Science Can Help Scientists Have Impact

From Climate Change to Pandemics: Decision Science Can Help Scientists Have Impact

Survey of Transverse Range Fire Scars in 10 Years of UAVSAR Polarimetry

Improving access to geodetic imaging crustal deformation data using GeoGateway

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