Natural Hazards and Emergency Response

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Natural Hazards and Emergency Response
Digital map initiatives for Emergency Management

• Bert Struik

March 4, 2004
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Digital Knowledge Initiatives

• Developing methodology and application to deliver
  earth science digital map knowledge for
  mitigation and on demand during national
  emergencies over the internet.
• Developing natural hazard digital knowledge
  management and access tools for hazard and risk
  assessments in mitigation decision support.

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Deliver earth science digital map knowledge

• 2 key ways that earth science hazard knowledge
  delivery is being improved in earth science
  sector.
• Enhance Earth Science Sector map delivery during
  national emergencies through a dedicated project
  (proposal in draft form to build on NRCan
  Emergency Mapping) (NHER Program)
• Contact Ko Fung, Canadian Centre for Remote
  Sensing, Geomatics Canada, Earth Science Sector,
  NRCan (fung_at_nrcan.gc.ca)
• Provide more comprehensive and up to date
  information on the Earthquake, Geomagnetic Storm
  and Landslide websites, including a new landslide
  inventory for Canada.
• www.earthquakes.nrcan.gc.ca
• www.geomagnetic.nrcan.gc.ca
• www.nrcan.gc.ca/gsc/landslide

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Natural hazard digital knowledge tools

• Establishing digital interoperable earth science
  data protocols and models for use in multi-hazard
  assessment (NHER and SDKI)
• Contact Didier Perret,Geological Survey of Canada
  (Québec City), ESS, NRCan (dperret_at_nrcan.gc.ca)
  Alain Grignon (agrignon_at_nrcan.gc.ca)
• Interfacing various risk assessment technology
  (NHEMATIS), with decision support tools (QUEST),
  and mitigation cost-benefit analysis (SDKI and
  NHER)
• Contact Boyan Brodaric,
• GSC Ottawa, ESS, NRCan
• (bbrodari_at_nrcan.gc.ca)

Pemberton, BC
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Challenges

• Emergency map delivery
• Establishing with partners the division of
  labours and responsibilities, and
  interconnectivity. Will do it this coming year.
  We can respond to all hazards in supplying base
  geographic information and satellite imagery, and
  can integrate this with earthquake, landslide,
  radiation, geomagnetic, volcanic, tsunami
  geology, and geophysical knowledge.
• Would like this to be part of an emergency map
  and image network of people and technology a
  Hazard Information System.
• Reaching the mitigation community.

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Opportunities

• Establish a GERCIAN community of practice joint
  project leading to a Hazard Information System A
  system of affirmed roles, relationships, and
  technological interchange between departments.
• It would be a project that would develop a longer
  lived and tightly inter-related community of
  practice and action.