# Presentation: 509582

## GDIN

**FORUM on**
**Risk Management and Assessments of Natural Hazards**

**Joseph D. Szwarckop**
**Director, Committee Support Office**
**5 February 2001**

*Global Disaster Information  Network****  ***

*GDIN*

## GDIN

**THE CHALLENGE**

***GDIN***

- To deliver the right information
- in the right format
- to the right person
- at the right time
- to make a right decision.

## Information Management Challenges

**Emergency Managers Require *****Interactive***** Access to Situation Information**
**Managers Require Information in a *****Spatial Context***** (Map-Based)**
**Information Management Environment Must Support *****Coordinated***** Tracking of Changing Conditions and Management *****Actions***
**Tracking Must Occur at Multiple Levels**
**Regional/State Emergency Operations Center (EOC)**
**County/Local Operations**
**Regional/Interstate Organizations**

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## Global Disaster Information Network

**KNOWLEDGE**
- Products/Services
- Archives
- Databases
- Analyses/Studies
- Models
- Fusion

**INTEGRATION**
- Standards
- Protocols
- Interfaces
- Network Management Guidelines
- Data/Information Quality

- CONNECTIVITY
- Intranet
- Internet
- Public/Private Telecommunications
- Printed Reports
- Broadcast

**  ****PARTICIPANTS**

-   Government
-   NGOs
-   Industry
-   General Public
-  Academia

- VISION

- A robust, integrated virtual network for cooperative exchange
- of timely, relevant
- information during all phases of disaster.

##  “Value Added”

**Integration of Information for Decision-making**
**Certification of the Accuracy and Quality of Information**
**Standardization for Compatibility of Information Products**

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## Executive Order

**Signed by the President 27 April 2000**
**Establishes GDIN as Federal Initiative**
**“*****Use information technology more effectively to reduce loss of life and property from natural and man-made disasters.*****”**
**Creates an Interagency Coordinating Committee**
**Co-chaired by OVP, Commerce (NOAA), State**
**Thirteen (13) department and agencies named as members initially**
**Support Office established to assist ICC by “developing plans and projects that would further the creation of the network.”**

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## ICC Responsibilities

**Provide coordination of Federal agency efforts**
**Provide manpower and material support for Network development activities**
**Develop, delegate, and monitor interagency opportunities and ideas supporting the development of the network**

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## Enhance Access to & Use of Relevant Disaster Information Resources Worldwide

Access to Existing & Emerging Information Resources

Integration of Operationally Mature Information Technologies & Resources
- Access & Retrieval	- Collaboration
- Analysis		- Dissemination

Operational Demonstrations 
- Networking		- Information Extraction Tools
- Analysis Techniques	- Inter-Organizational Affiliation

**Access to Existing & Emerging Information Resources**
**Integration of Operationally Mature Information Technologies & Resources**
**- Access & Retrieval****	****- Collaboration**
**- Analysis****	****	****- Dissemination**
**Operational Demonstrations **
**- Networking****	****	****- Information Extraction Tools**
**- Analysis Techniques****	****- Inter-Organizational Affiliation**

**Emergency Managers Need Information Networks at a Local, Regional, and Global Scale**

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**Mission**

## Risk Assessment and Consequence Analysis

-     Urban Growth Models
-    *Relate the impact of land use  decisions to public safety*

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## Interactive Risk Assessment

**Decision-makers need to tailor requests for their specific area and topic of interest**
**Availability of local data sets should be responsibility of the local community**
**Models/assessment tools could be virtual assets**

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## Scenario 1

**Scenario 1**
**Current Trends**
**to 2050**
**Rule:**** ****Near Existing Residential**
**-Growth Allowed in Hazard Areas**
**Existing Devp.**
**New Resort**
**Growth **
**New Residential**
**Growth**

**Growth Data**
**Acres - 945**
**People 19,899**

## Kihei Hazard Types

**Kihei Hazard Types**
**Storm Surge**
**Flood Plain**
**Gulch Flooding**

- Detail Area

## Current Trends Growth in Risk Areas

- Combined Hazards

## RED = Danger

**RED**** = Danger**
**BLUE**** = OK**

## Three Dimensional Model

**Three Dimensional Model**
**with fly-through capability**

## GDIN is...

**A “**_**network**_**” for sharing critical expertise, data and technology**

** ****A **_**Collaboration Forum**_** for information exchanges across all levels of civil, military, and commercial sectors**

** ****A **_**search engine**_** for time-critical and value-added disaster information**

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## Slide 17

## Slide 18

## Tools for Extracting DEM data

## Interactive Model Run

## Sample Inundation Map

- Flood from a 15 min piping breach

## Impact

***Life  Property  Food  Water  Shelter***
***Transportation  Communications  Critical Infrastructure***

**Flood**
**Earthquake**
**Wildfire**
**Disease**
**Typhoon**
**Tsunami**
**Technologic**

**Mitigation**

**Preparedness**

**Response**

**Recovery**

_**Natural **_
_**Hazard**_

_**Emergency**_
_**Management**_
_**Phase**_