International Charter Space and Major Disasters 2011 NOAA Satellite Direct Readout Conference Miami, Florida April 4, 2011 Monitoring and Management Support for Disaster Response

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Background: USGS Statutory Roles and Responsibilities Notification and warnings for earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides Seismic networks support U.S. tsunami warning program Stream gages and storm surge monitors support flood and severe weather warnings Geomagnetic observatories support solar storm forecasts Geospatial information supports response operations for wildfire and many other hazards

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Facing Tomorrow’s Challenges – USGS Science in the Decade Understanding Ecosystems and Predicting Ecosystem Change Climate Variability and Change Energy and Minerals for America’s Future A National Hazards, Risk, and Resilience Assessment Program The Role of Environment and Wildlife in Human Health A Water Census of the United States

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Grand Challenges for Disaster Reduction Grand Challenges for Disaster Reduction U.S. National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction 1. Provide hazard and disaster information where and when it is needed 2. Understand the natural processes that produce hazards 3. Develop hazard mitigation strategies and technologies 4. Recognize and reduce vulnerability of interdependent critical infrastructure 5. Assess disaster resilience using standard methods 6. Promote risk-wise behavior

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' The Hyogo Framework for Action 1. Ensure that disaster risk reduction is a national and local priority 2. Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks and enhance early warning 3. Use knowledge, innovation and education to build a culture of safety and resilience at all levels 4. Reduce the underlying risk factors 5. Strengthen disaster preparedness for effective response at all levels

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' The Charter - Purpose An International agreement among Space Agencies to support relief efforts in the event of emergencies caused by major disasters – Disaster response – Multi-satellite data acquisition planning Fast data turn-around – priority acquisition – Archive retrievals and spacecraft tasking – Data processing at pre-determined level – Space Agency contribution in image/data – Space Agency initiative for value-added-data fusion

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Charter Members CSA Canada NOAAUSGSUSA CONAE Argentina CNES France ESA Europe ISROIndia JAXAJapan CNSAChina KARIKorea ROSCOSMOSRussia INPE Brazil DMCUK DLRGermany As of December 3, 2010

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Activating the Charter Authorized Users are: the entities authorized to request the services of the Charter, thus mobilizing the space and ground resources of Charter member agencies to obtain data and information on a disaster occurrence a civil protection, rescue, defense or security body from the country of a Charter member a pre-defined list of 40+ user organisations, corresponding to 39 countries. As of December 3, 2010 Countries with Authorized Users No Yes

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Charter Operations EMERGENCY ON-CALL OFFICER (ECO) MEMBERS VALUE-ADDED PROVIDER (VAP) END USER (EU) AUTHORIZED USER (AU) ON-DUTY OPERATOR (ODO) PROJECT MANAGER (PM) ESA CNES CSA USGS NOAA UKSA/DMC JAXA CNSA CONAE ISRO DISASTER

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Mechanisms to Activate the Charter Direct activation (in-country members) Activation via an AU on behalf of a user from a non- member country (“Sponsor AU”) Activation via the UN for UN users Activation for Asia-Pacific Users – Sentinel Asia and the Asian Disaster Reduction Center Support to Tsunami Response, Indonesia

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Charter Activation Cases (disaster types) As of March 30, 2011

Activation Distribution As of March 30, 2011

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Support to Flood Response, Pakistan, August 18, 2010

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti First impact assessment - 40 hours after event from ALOS and GEOEYE, January 14,2010

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Gulf Oil Spill Monitoring – Summer 2010 Landsat 5 Image 12 July 2010 Envisat Image, 26 April 2010 Photo Courtesy US Coast Guard

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Landslides in Brazil

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Japan Earthquake/Tsunami 4 August 2010 – Worldview 2 © 2011 Digital Globe

International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters' Japan Earthquake/Tsunami 14 March 2011 – Worldview 2 © 2011 Digital Globe

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