1. CEOS-GEO Disasters Support
Presented at the NRT Workshop/LaRC by
Stuart Frye, NASA/GSFC/SGT
27-29 September 2016

2. Acronyms CEOS – Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
GEO – Group on Earth Observations
GEOSS – Global Earth Observation System of Systems
AmeriGEOSS – GEOSS in the Americas

3. Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
What is CEOS
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
Established in 1984 under auspices of G-7 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations
Focal point for international coordination of civilian space-related Earth Observation (EO) activities
Optimize benefits through cooperation of members in mission planning and in development of compatible data products, formats, services, applications, and policies
Operates through best efforts of Members and Associates via voluntary contributions

4. CEOS GEO CEOS and GEO 31 Space Agencies 28 Associates Space Arm of
59 agencies operating 135 satellites
Space
Arm of
Certain disasters occur on a scale that puts them in a category of their own. In particular, the damage they cause requires an enormous effort over several years ot foster full recovery. Satellite EO can play a major role supporting this recovery.
GEO
101 governments & EU
92 organizations

5. Initiative-Related Mechanisms Others where justified …
Coordination in
Satellite Earth Observations
CEOS coordinates satellite Earth observations by:
Working Groups for common technical issues
Virtual Constellations to address key observational gaps and bring together relevant CEOS resources and expertise
Ad-hoc teams to respond to GEO global Initiatives
Working Groups
WG on Information Systems and Services
WG on Calibration and Validation
WG on Capacity Building and Data Democracy
WG on Climate (joint with CGMS)
WG on Disasters
Virtual Constellations
Atmospheric Composition
Precipitation
Land Surface Imaging
Ocean Colour Radiometry Ocean Surface Topography
Ocean Surface Vector Wind Sea Surface Temperature
Certain disasters occur on a scale that puts them in a category of their own. In particular, the damage they cause requires an enormous effort over several years to foster full recovery. Satellite EO can play a major role supporting this recovery.
Initiative-Related Mechanisms
Ad hoc Team on GEOGLAM
Space Data Coordination Group for GFOI
Water Strategy Implementation Study Team
Others where justified …

6. CEOS and GEO Disasters work under NASA
Flood and Landslide Pilots led by NASA
Flood Pilot Co-leads Stu Frye and Bob Kuligowski/NOAA
Landslide Pilot Co-leads Dalia Kirschbaum/GSFC, Jonathan Godt/USGS, Jean-Philippe Malet/University of Strasbourg, Sigrid Roessner/GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
CEOS and GEO Disasters activities leverage the proliferation of automated web services with machine-to-machine application programmer interfaces combined with the scaling down of products from gigabyte raster images to vector-based formats that can be easily combined as map layers by end users into their own analysis platforms 
These tools provide delivery mechanisms, processing techniques, data formats, and web service interfaces on top of remote sensing data sources that are becoming more and more a part of normal disaster response protocols at the state, national, regional, and international level

7. Floods Pilot: Global Component: GFMS
GFMS cited by UN World Food Program:
"The Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS) provides one key step further by indicating how an excess rainfall event will impact river flow, and also whether there is a potential for flooding downstream away from the heavy rain event," said E.Niebuhr, World Food Program. "We check the GFMS nearly every single day to monitor current flood concerns, and also to assist in discovering new flood events that may not have been reported yet or are developing”.
Nepal Department of Hydrology and Meteorology and ICIMOD used GFMS data after the Nepal earthquake
Certain disasters occur on a scale that puts them in a category of their own. In particular, the damage they cause requires an enormous effort over several years ot foster full recovery. Satellite EO can play a major role supporting this recovery.

8. How Data Are Being Exploited
Geographic Area
Product
Value Added Partner
Haiti
Flood extent maps, flood risk maps, landslide maps, flash flood guidance / threat maps, integrated risk assessment platform
SERTIT, CIMA, INGV, Altamira, CIMH, RASOR FP7, NOAA/HRC
Other Caribbean islands, Central America
Flood damage maps, change detection products, co-registered map overlays
CATHALAC, CIMH, NASA/GSFC
Namibia
Flood extent maps, flood warning products, co-registered map overlays
Namibia Hydrology Dept, Namibian Water Authority, NASA
Zambezi basin
Flood extent maps, flood forecast models, flood hazard maps, flood depth forecasts
Lippmann Institute (PAPARAZZI, HAZARD, WATCHFUL), DELTARES, RSS
Mekong
Flood extent maps, flood risk maps, flash flood guidance / threat maps
Mekong River Commission, NASA, NOAA/HRC, USGS, University of South Carolina, Texas A&M
Java (Bandung, Jakarta, Cilacap)
Flood risk maps, subsidence maps tied to flood risk, tsunami risk maps (Cilacap only), flood extent maps
SERTIT, Deltares, CIMA, Altamira, INGV, RASOR FP7
Products used by: national end users, civil protection agencies, World Bank, Red Cross, World Food Program, River Commissions (Kavango, Zambezi, Mekong) 8

9. Flood Pilot Data Acquisition Status Since 3/2016 WGDisasters Meeting
Detailed EO Requirements for each Pilot approved at 2013 Plenary; acquisition allocations approved at 2014 Plenary
Individual requests from each Pilot coordinated by co-leads and detailed on consolidated request form…totals shown below are in addition to data provided by the Charter
Data distribution co-ordinated by co-leads (the lack of standardized data ordering and distribution makes it labor-intensive to target acquisitions and disseminate data)
Mission / Instrument
Repeat or Revisit
Swath Width
Spatial Resolution
Agency
Image Counts
Annual Quota
Since 3/2016 WGDisasters Meeting
Cumulative Total
Optical - Coarse Resolution (>100 m)
Terra / MODIS
1 day
2230 km
250, 500, 1000 m
NASA
Aqua / MODIS
NPP / VIIRS
3000 km
375, 750 m
Optical - Moderate Resolution (10 to 100 m)
Sentinel-2A / MSI
10 days
290 km
10, 20, 60 m
ESA
EO-1 / ALI
204 days
185 km
10, 30 m
300 11 81
Landsat-8 / OLI
16 days
15, 30 m
USGS 8 78
Optical - High Resolution (<10 m)
SPOT (archive only)
26 days
60 km
1.5 and 6 m
CNES
Pleiades
20 km
50 cm and 2 m 50
9-12*
L-Band SAR
ALOS-2 / PALSAR-2
14 days
25 to 350 km
10 to 100 m
JAXA
100 40
C-Band SAR
Sentinel-1A / SAR
12 days
80, 250, 400 km
9, 20, 50 m 5 52
Sentinel-1B / SAR
Radarsat-2 / SAR-C
1-6 days
50 to 500 km
8 to 100 m
CSA
500 (3 yr) 6
123
X-Band SAR
Cosmo Sky-Med / SAR-2000
5 days
10 to 200 km
1 to 100 m
ASI 4
107
*includes a set of 4 stripes over Jakarta corresponding to 7-9 individual images 9

10. Floods Pilot: Regional Results Mississippi
Certain disasters occur on a scale that puts them in a category of their own. In particular, the damage they cause requires an enormous effort over several years ot foster full recovery. Satellite EO can play a major role supporting this recovery.
ALOS-2, Jan 1, 2016
ALOS-2, Jan 11, 2016
ALOS-2, Jan 16, 2016

11. Seismic and Volcano Pilot Results: Cotopaxi Unrest
Initial 2015 CSK data analysis seems to show
inflation (longer time-series required)
Ascending
Descending
Certain disasters occur on a scale that puts them in a category of their own. In particular, the damage they cause requires an enormous effort over several years ot foster full recovery. Satellite EO can play a major role supporting this recovery.
MORU
MORU
Cerro
Quilindana

12. AmeriGEOSS Initiative: Approved at GEO Plenary Mexico City Nov 2016
There are currently 15 Americas Caucus Member countries:
Argentina
Bahamas
Belize
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
The goal is to engage:
All countries and Participating Organizations in North, Central, South America, and the Caribbean.
Global GEO members and Participating Organizations working in the Americas.
Ecuador
Honduras
Mexico
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
United States
Certain disasters occur on a scale that puts them in a category of their own. In particular, the damage they cause requires an enormous effort over several years ot foster full recovery. Satellite EO can play a major role supporting this recovery.

13. AmeriGEOSS Initiative: Regional Coordination Process
America’s Caucus – GEO Principals
Regional Coordination Working Group (WG)
Agriculture and Food Security WG
Disaster Risk Reduction WG
Water Resources WG
Ecosystems & Biodiversity WG
Foundational Activities WG
Certain disasters occur on a scale that puts them in a category of their own. In particular, the damage they cause requires an enormous effort over several years ot foster full recovery. Satellite EO can play a major role supporting this recovery.
Next: to develop TORs for each step in this Coordination Process

14. AmeriGEOSS Disasters WG Overview
Bring all GEO global initiatives to the Americas region with AmeriGEOSS, and AmeriGEOSS regional needs to the global initiatives. For Disasters, this means:
Support the Sendai Framework’s first priority of understanding disaster risk
Support Disaster related sustainable development goals
Gather together the GEO disasters community activities and global initiatives, e.g. Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories (GSNL) and GEO Data Access for Risk Management (GEO-DARMA) and bring them to the Americas
Expose Americas needs to these activities
Coordinate with the CEOS Working Group on Disasters regional activities
AmeriGEOSS Coordination Working Group (CWG) has been meeting to prepare for GEO-XIII in Russia in November and to plan for the 2017 AmeriGEOSS week
What we are trying to do is pull together the larger Americas community for Disasters EO
Certain disasters occur on a scale that puts them in a category of their own. In particular, the damage they cause requires an enormous effort over several years ot foster full recovery. Satellite EO can play a major role supporting this recovery.

15. AmeriGEOSS Disasters Working Group Points of Contact
Mexico POC = Carlos Miguel Valdes Gonzalez/Director
Colombia POC = Diana Faneyra Robles/Disasters POC
Chile POC’s = Luciano Parodi/Ministry of Foreign Affairs Alvaro Monett /SNIT-IDE
Argentina liaisons until POCs are named = Lucas Bruno Ardini 
Peru liaisons until POCs are named = Jorge Pacheo
Canada liaison until POCs are named = Laura Mills
Costa Rica liaisons until POCs are named = Juan Carlos Fallas Stolz
Paraguay liaison until POCs are named = Alberto Yanosky
USA POC’s
Other partners/stakeholders:
Regional Climate Change Program Platform Alejandro Solis of Development Alternatives Inc (DAI)
GEOSS AIP Capacity Building in Chile Lucia Lovison
Certain disasters occur on a scale that puts them in a category of their own. In particular, the damage they cause requires an enormous effort over several years ot foster full recovery. Satellite EO can play a major role supporting this recovery.

16. NRT Categories Used in Disasters
Direct downlink from Landsat, Terra, Aqua, and NPP (regional footprint only with < 1 hour latency at downlink site)
Every 3 hours GPM IMERG and TRMM precipitation
Daily MODIS from LANCE (3 hour latency after ground receipt)
EO-1 (4-6 hours after ground receipt with systematic geolocation)
Daily Landsat from Earth Explorer (6-10 hour latency from imaging time for ortho-rectified delivery)
Sentinels and ALOS-2 (8-16 hours after ground receipt)
Other targeted assets (up to 24 hours after ground receipt)

17. Backup Slides
Disaster dashboards
Disaster API components

18. Caribbean/Central American Dashboard

19. Southern Africa Dashboard

20. ojo-streamer.herokuapp.com/
Prototype Global Interface for Precipitation, Flood, and Landslide Data Products
ojo-streamer.herokuapp.com/

21. Other Web Service Disasters Links
• OpenID Provider-Server = controls the security (this is where you setup your account) • Campaign Manager = allows tasking requests to be submitted (i.e., targets) • EO-1 Observations Server = this is where data for NASA’s Earth Observing One (EO-1) can be found along with the status of future and past task requests • Radarsat Observation Server = where we provide access to Radar raw data, browse images, metadata, and processed flood products • MODIS Flood Server (API) = is where you can point your browser to manually check on daily MODIS flood maps • MODIS Flood Server (GUI) = is the server that provides an API for accessing the daily MODIS maps
Instructions for use available at: