GIScience and Big Data for Hazard Research
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/28/2022
Start Time: 3:40 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
Theme: Climate Justice
Sponsor Group(s):
Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group
, Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Joslyn Zale
, Xiaohui Liu
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Chairs(s):
Bandana Kar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Description:
Extreme weather events have caused significant damage worldwide in recent years. In fact, 2020 was the second most active Atlantic hurricane season, with 25 named tropical cyclones. The year 2021 also has seen its fair share of tropical storms, flooding and wildfires. So far, due to unprecedented heat and drought conditions, wildfires have burnt millions of acres of land across all the continents. Of course, the entire globe is still dealing with the health and economic adversities of COVID-19 pandemic. Some locations and populations are experiencing the impacts of multiple hazard events, which requires developing preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery strategies to addresses the impacts of more than one extreme event over time. It is also crucial to consider the climate and environmental justice issues as well as privacy concerns stemming from the use of granular geospatial data.
The convergence of technologies like social media, web-mapping, cloud computing, unmanned aerial systems, and location-based services has revolutionized risk prediction, risk assessment, damage and vulnerability assessment as well as communication to aid with humanitarian response in near real-time. This session seeks presentations leveraging GIScience, geospatial data and technology and computational science to forecast, assess and explore hazards and impacts. Possible topics may include but are not limited to:
• Methods for modeling and mapping hazardscapes, risk, and vulnerability
• Spatial decision support systems in emergency management
• Geocomputaton and dynamic geographic modeling in emergencies
• Role of imagery (satellite/sensors, UAS) in emergency management
• Geovisualization and visual analytics
• Impact of uncertainties in geospatial data and spatio-temporal modeling on emergency management
• Impact of multi-scale data and modeling on disaster management
• Role of social media, crowdsourcing, and citizen science in emergency management and humanitarian response
• The dynamics of hazards and their impact on physical and social environments
• Trajectory and movement analysis to aid with response and recovery efforts
• Optimization and geosimulation for emergency management and resource planning
• The interdependency between climate justice and hazard research in building resilience
Presentation(s), if applicable
Bandana Kar, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Modeling Power Outage Restoration Following Extreme Events |
Seda Salap-Ayca, Brown University; Self-Organizing Maps as a Dimension Reduction Approach for Spatial Global Sensitivity Analysis Visualization |
Lucy Leonel, ; Flood risk assessment in Limbe (Cameroon) using a GIS weighed sum method |
Joseph Tuccillo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; A Multiscalar Measure of Social Vulnerability for the United States |
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GIScience and Big Data for Hazard Research
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Bandana Kar - yourbandana75@gmail.com
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