1. Earthquake Information Dissemination Workshop
May 26, 2006
ITR – RESCUE
Natural Hazards Center, U.C. Boulder

2. Goals of the RESCUE Project
Transforming the ability to collect, analyze, share and disseminate information within the responding organizations and the public
On-site 1st Responders
Mobile Command
& Control
EOC
Response Network

3. Key Observation
Right Information to the Right Person at the Right Time
can result in dramatically better response
Response
Effectiveness
lives & property saved
damage prevented
cascades avoided
Quality of
Decisions
first responders
consequence planners
public
Quality &
Timeliness of
Information
Situational
Awareness
incidences
resources
victims
needs

4. RESCUE Project Structure
INFORMATION
ANALYSIS
INFORMATION
COLLECTION
INFORMATION
SHARING
RESCUE Thrust Areas
INFORMATION
DISSEMINATION
Integrative
Artifacts
Smart
Reconnaissance
System
Enterprise
Service
Bus
Policy
Engine
Real-time
Alert
Integrated
Information
Dashboard
Internet-based
Loss Estimation
Robust
Networking
Solution
Risk
Communication
TRANSPORTATION
CAMAS
GLQ
CHAMPAIGN
FUTURE TESTBEDS
Testbeds
Situation
Awareness
Robust
Networking
Customized
Dissemination
Policy-driven
Information
Sharing
Privacy
RESCUE
Research
Projects

5. RESCUE Testbeds CAMAS/Responsphere, UCI Transportation Simulator
(regional response)
CAMAS/Responsphere, UCI
(incident-level response)
CAMAS:
A instrumented multisensor smartspace at UCI implementing & monitoring response activities
Transportation: Simulation of a large geographically dispersed disaster and its impact on transportation
Different testbeds
model information
flow conditions
under diverse types
of crisis situations
Gas Lamp Quarter, SD
(robust infrastructure)
Champaign Testbed
(data sharing)
NBC Building
Currently, there are four different testbeds. The transportation testbed which emphasizes regional response, that is, examining the role of IT research in large scale disasters such as earthquakes. I will talk more about this testbed in a moment.
CAMAS – which stands for Citizen Awareness System for Mitigation Crises – has been designed to examine incident-level response. And one of the specific This is one of the major demos that you will see later this afternoon.
The Champaign testbed – is relatively new. It was not one of the original testbeds proposed in our original proposal, but because of the excellent relationship that Marianne Winslett developed with the city of Champaign, it has become our fourth testbed. The focus of this testbed is removing the barriers of sharing data and information.
And finally, the GLQ testbed which is being conducted in the Gas Lamp Quarter of San Diego. The focus here is on robust mobile network solutions for crisis response.
Champaign:
City Emergency Operations Center to serve as a testbed for Data Sharing Applications
GLQ : Infrastructure to test robustness of network deployments via live experiments in real setting

6. RESCUE Research Team Privacy Security Trust Natural Hazards Center
Social Science
Data Management
Security and Trust
Disaster Analysis
Earthquake Engineering
GIS
Civil Engineering
Data Analysis & Mining
Middleware & Distributed Systems
Transportation Engineering
Computer Vision
Networking
Multimodal Speech
Transporation Modeling
Urban Planning
Privacy
Social Science
Transportation Science
Illinois – architecture
Take out colors in agenda
Wireless

7. Rescue/Responsphere Partners
Canon
Visualization equipment, SDK
The School Broadcasting Company
School based dissemination
Ether2
Next-generation ethernet
Boeing
Testbed research partners (potential)
Cox Cable
Broadcast video delivery
Apani Networks
Data security at layer 2
5G Wireless
Broad-range IEEE networking
IBM
Smart Surveillance Software (S3) and 22 e330 xSeries servers
Asvaco
1st responders (LAPD), and threat analysis software
AMD
Compute servers
Microsoft
ImageCat, Inc.
GIS loss estimation in emergency response
Printronix
RFID technology
Walker Wireless
People-counting technology

8. Interactions Steering Situational Awareness
Management Structure
Community Advisory
Board
Chair: Ellis Stanley
RESCUE Project PIs
UCI - S. Mehrotra, Director
UCSD – R. Rao
Technical Advisory
Committee
Chair: TBD
RESCUE
Project Management
RESCUE Executive
Committee
S. Mehrotra, UCI
R. Rao, UCSD
K. Tierney, CU
R. Eguchi, ImageCat
RESCUE External
Interactions Steering
Committee
Chair: Peter Chang - UM
RESCUE Technology
& Artifacts Steering
Committee
Chair: Nalini Venkatasubramanian
- UCI
RESCUE
Projects
Situational Awareness
Project Lead:
N. Ashish, UCI
Extreme Networking
Project Lead:
B.S. Manoj, UCSD
MetaSIM
Project Lead:
Charles Hyuck, ImageCat, Inc.
Privacy
Project Lead:
S. Mehrotra, UCI
Sharing
Project Lead:
M. Winslett, UIUC
Dissemination
Project Lead:
N. Venkatasubramanian, UCI

9. Goals for Today’s Workshop
To update researchers and stakeholders on state of the art developments in earthquake alert and warning since the conclusion of the TriNet study (2002).
To introduce and explain the goals and plans for public information dissemination within RESCUE.
To discuss issues pertaining to public information dissemination from the fields of earthquake engineering science, social science, information technology, state and local policy-makers, emergency managers, schools/school districts, parents and community members, etc.

10. Agenda
9:00
Welcome/introductions/format of the workshop – Sharad Mehrotra, UCI
9:30
Presentation from Jim Goltz, CalTech - history of the initiative, intended goals, progress
9:45
Earthquake Scientists / Engineers
Masumi Yamada - CalTech
Thomas Heaton - CalTech
Richard Allen – UC Berkeley
10:15
Break
10:30
Social Scientists/Policy Experts
Deb Riopelle – VA Med Center
10:50
Emergency Managers and Stakeholders
Wendy Milligan – SoCal school district emergency management consultant
Mark Bassett – Regional OES
Ellis Stanley – City of L.A.
Parents
School district
12:00
Lunch
12:45
Presentation from RESCUE –
What is RESCUE working on for earthquake information dissemination?
Earthquake scenario and introduction to afternoon workshop session
1:30
Presentation from School Broadcasting Network – Evan Arguelles and Jeff Briggs
1:45
Afternoon workshop - What are the barriers and solutions to earthquake information dissemination – social issues
3:00
3:15
Workshop continued - What are the barriers and solutions to earthquake information dissemination – technological issues
4:15
Wrap up and next steps – Kathleen Tierney, Natural Hazards Center
5:00
Adjourn