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Focus area: South Carolina Flood

Focus area: South Carolina Flood. NASA Flood Response Workshop. June 14, 2016. Flood “Whiteboard”. FEMA Geospatial Framework. Hurricane Joaquin: Unusual & uncertain path Wide variation in predicted landfall, if any Rapidly strengthened and turned Southeast Rain Event:

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Focus area: South Carolina Flood

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  1. Focus area: South Carolina Flood NASA Flood Response Workshop June 14, 2016

  2. Flood “Whiteboard”

  3. FEMA Geospatial Framework

  4. Hurricane Joaquin: Unusual & uncertain path Wide variation in predicted landfall, if any Rapidly strengthened and turned Southeast Rain Event: Held in place and fueled by Joaquin Predicted Upwardly-revised rainfall and river flooding predictions By 3 OCT, all eyes on South Carolina

  5. South Carolina Geospatial Operations Outcome-Based Imagery and High Water Mark collections enabled analysis • Civil Air Patrol collected 4,400+ images • NOAA collected 3,000+ images • USGS collected 598 High Water Marks • FEMA produced flood extents for >20 highly impacted communities Orchestrated 8,000+ structural assessments • NGA: assessed >4,000 structures within 1st week • DHS IDIQ: Assessed 10,000 structures and completed program-specific assessments (IA/PA) Seized opportunities and executed “on-the-fly” innovation: • UAS, Crowd-sourced damage analyses, “Story Map” Journal, HWM/Depth Grids, CAP Camera system Impactful Supported DDO recommendation for Presidential Disaster declaration UAS imagery: Augmented dam inspection team observations Recovery IA: - Enabled triaging and focusing of inspections - USGS High Water Mark collection and resulting Depth Grid modeling supported DHS IDIQ GPDAs - GPDAs supported additional county declarations Recovery PA: - GPDAs supported additional county declarations - Helped identify inaccessible/isolated communities UGO: Proved the concept of distributed and virtual UGO for other-than-Level-I NRCC activations

  6. South Carolina Lessons Learned: Remote Sensing • Innovate • Small UAS • USACE • Dams • Commercial Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) • Prototype Tool • Auto Flood Extent • Virtual “Light Tables” • CAP Nadir “VIRB” Cameras and Wide Area Mosaics • Sustain • Federated Collection Management: • NGA, Interagency, SC, J2/NGB • Federated Exploitation: • NGA, DHS IDIQ • Imagery-Derived Products: • Disseminated via Journal, WMS • GPDAs, Bridges, Roads, & Extents • Multi-Platform, Multi-Sensor • Interagency partnerships: • NOAA National Geodetic Survey • USGS Hazards Data Dissemination System • Improve • Standardization of CAP Mission Assignments and “Mission Profiles” • Timeliness of Mission Assignments and Contracts • Insight into partner collections and production • Timeliness of imagery acquisition and exploitation • Standardization of analysis • Hindsight and Foresight • Should have assembled Interagency Flood SMEs • Need UAS employment SOP/Lessons Learned • Pursue S&T projects to automate image interpretation • Develop process for visibility into partner collection and production efforts • Develop acquisition tasking and prioritization SOP • Certify an International Charter Project Manager • Appoint Alternate Remote Sensing Coordinators

  7. Flooding in Carolinas (Monday, Oct. 5) Tuesday Today Heavy rains mostly over in South Carolina. Flood estimate map for today (Monday) (upper left) with forecast maps for Tuesday (upper left) and Wednesday (lower right) indicate lessening of flooding and movement downstream, although our system often tends to move water downstream too fast. Wednesday Global Flood Forecast System (GFMS) Adler/Wu U. of Maryland

  8. Estimated Inundation Maps (Oct. 5) Estimated inundation maps at 1 km resolution for all of South Carolina and expanded area (below) showing inundation along Congaree and Santee Rivers in center.

  9. * *does not represent total impacts

  10. What is the (mandated) role of your agency in flood response? • What is your agencies’ capability with respect to flood response, e.g. what data, support or decisions does your team/agency provide • What format do you use/prefer for data? • How often do you need to receive updates for data? • Are modeled outputs and forecasts accepted by your agency? • How do you need data uncertainties and errors communicated? • What are the three main challenges you would identify in terms of flood response that your agency faces, e.g. data transferability, interoperability, access to right/better data, etc. • How, in your opinion could NASA (i.e. satellite and airborne) data and developed models assist in meeting your agency goals? • What should NASA provide to assist your agency in supporting flood response

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