End-to-End : Adaptive Sensing to Integrated Models via Science Gateways
Channel: Intelligent Systems for Geosciences Community
Date: 2019-07-03

This End-to-End Team Project completed a full deployment from 
Adaptive Sensors-to-Science Gateway-to-Flood Simulation Model-to-Augmented Reality Table 

During the 2019 Annual IS-GEO workshop, the "Hack Fast-Fake News" team worked on a rapid design and deploy a real-time flood modeling use case. The basic design of the project  included:
- Case study area Boulder Creek Canyon (DEM and satellite imagery)
- 4 real-time water sensors that were assigned GPS coordinates in the case study area (fake coordinates = "fake news")
- Sensing signals streamed into the DataX Science Gateway (CHORDS & TAPIS)
- Code for the Height Above Natural Drainage model (simple flood model - more sophisticated being linked as follow-on work)
- Jupyter notebook for testing model within the Science Gateway 
- WINGS automated workflow components to make reproducibility in other locations easy (Model INTegration platform - MINT)
- Easy deploy to High Performance Computing resources at TACC 
- Outputs displayed in real-time on augmented reality sandtable (corporate partner Simtable).

The entire process was completed in 2 1/2 days of a hands-on workshop. Now that the proof-of-concept approach is complete, researchers are working to streamline implementation for future uses and models.