Tsunami Deposits Workshop Seattle, June 12-15, 2005

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Tsunami Deposits WorkshopSeattle, June 12-15,
2005
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) NEES
Cyberinfrastructure Center (NEESit) Tsunami
Reconnaissance Data Repository
Anke Kamrath (kamratha_at_sdsc.edu) PI/Director,
NEESit and Division Director, SDSC Vladimir
Veytser (veytser_at_sdsc.edu) NEES/SDSC Software
Developer http//it.nees.org
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Overview

• What is NEES?
• NEESit Data Repository
• Tsunami Reconnaissance Data Repository

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NEES Infrastructure
NEESinc Headquarters
NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center
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NEESit Data Repository

• Data Services
• https//central.nees.org
• Central portal for providing NEESit services
• Authentication and Authorization management
  services username and password
• Data repository interface and tools used to
  store, modify, search, and retrieve data and
  metadata
• GOAL No Data Lost!
• 3 copies of data

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Getting Started with NEES

• See http//it.nees.org
• http//tsunami.nees.org coming soon
• How to contact us
• Email it-support_at_nees.org
• Toll free number 1-866-260-4100
• Web
• http//it.nees.org/support

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NEEScentral
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Flexible Account Management
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Create New Projects
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NEESit File Hierarchy

• NEEScentral provides a web-interface into
  metadata model
• High-level model based on existing data and
  practices from equipment sites
• Hierarchical model with metadata values added to
  individual directory level nodes

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NEES Tsunami Reconnaissance Data Repository

• Partnership
• UCSD
• SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
• NEESit
• Oregon State University
• Harry Yeh
• Project includes four primary elements
• Data/Metadata Structure Working with the
  reconnaissance teams to ensure adequate metadata
  to facilitate reuse and queries of the data
• Storage Formal storage strategy to ensure its
  long-term reliability,
• Curation Data librarian and curation effort to
  review and validate the metadata and data
  entering the repository,
• Query Query and browsing interfaces to allow
  easy downloads of the data

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Initial Efforts

• Creating Data Upload Environment
• Preliminary metadata structure
• File hierarchy for upload
• Query/Browsing Environment
• Google Maps (maps.google.com) as catalog browser
  (all data geo-referenced)
• Evaluating Visualization tools (Geoplayer/GeoFusio
  n)
• Inclusion of before/after remote sensing data
• Coordination with NSF SBE Recon Teams
• EERI Recon Teams
• Telecon being planned with experts to inform
  metadata structure
• Work with teams to upload data

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Prototype NEES-Tsunami Interface
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Sample Google Maps Browser
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• Tsunami Repository Prototype File Hierarchy
• Orange folders include subfolders as needed
• Blue represents metadata

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People, Summary, Scope, Sponsorship, Dates
Surveys
Seismic Data
Geological Geographical
Societal Data
Hydrodynamic Data
Environmental Data
Engineering Data

• Tsunami Runup Height
• Inundation Distance
• Flow Directions
• Flow magnitudes
• Number of run-ups and their arrival times
• Tide gage data

• Local seismographs

• Site configuration-topo bathymetry
• Subsidence uplift
• Tsunami deposit
• Scour
• Morphological changes
• Submarine subaerial Landslides
• Paleo-tsunami data

• Vegetation
• Marine Bio
• Animals

• Site information - roads, bridges, buildings,
  etc.
• Damage of buildings
• infrastructures
• Fires
• Lifeline
• EQ effects

• Casualties
• Injured missing people
• Public authorities response (Immediate,Short
  term, Intermediate and Long term)
• Preparedness (Warning, Awareness eduaction)
• individual behaviors
• Political background
• Societal background

Each file should have TimeDate, GPS, recorders
name, remarks.
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Metadata for survey categories

• 4) Engineering MetaData
• Site information - roads, bridges, buildings,
  etc.
• Damage of buildings infrastructures
• Fires
• Lifeline
• EQ effects
• 5) Societal Metadata
• Casualties
• Injured missing people
• Public authorities response (Immediate,Short
  term, Intermediate and Long term)
• Preparedness (Warning, Awareness eduaction)
• individual behaviors
• Political background
• Societal background
• 6) Seismic Metadata
• Local seismographs

• 1) Hydrodynamic Metadata
• Tsunami Runup Height
• Inundation Distance
• Flow Directions
• Flow magnitudes
• Number of run-ups and their arrival times
• Tide gage data
• 2) Geological Geographical Metadata
• Site configuration-topo bathymetry
• Subsidence uplift
• Tsunami deposit
• Scour
• Morphological changes
• Submarine subaerial Landslides
• Paleo-tsunami data
• 3) Environmental Metadata
• Vegetation

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Metadata for Multimedia Files

• All field data geo-referenced
• EERI recommended metadata for recon image(s)
• File name, date and image description
• Lat/Long (in decimal degree format) or street
  address if lat/long information is not available.
• Photographer Orientation.
• Researchers contact information.
• Simlar for video, scanned paper clippings
• Surveys/interviews also to be geo-referenced

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Future Directions

• Working with other national and international
  groups/organizations
• Enhancement and extension of metadata
• Extension to other earthquake events
• Enhancement of user interface/query environment
• Integration with other data resources (NEES,,
  remote sensing, ?)

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Questions?

• More info
• Anke Kamrath kamratha_at_sdsc.edu
• Vladimir Veytser veytser_at_sdsc.edu
• it.nees.org

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NSF SBE Teams
Project Title Data Project Goal Areas PI
Factors affecting behavioral response to natural warning signs of tsunami. Social human behavioral responses by conducting interviews. Short-lived social data from people in affected areas to understand human behavioral response Andaman coast of Thailand Bruce Houghton
Physical and Social Infrastructure Impacts and Interdependencies in Southern Thailand Social aggreagate of social, political, economic and demographic characteristics via interviews, archives, tourism literature, media reports. Data, regarding recovery of coastal S.Thailand, to be used in models that test hypothesis of coupling between physical and social systems, in particular how it relates to tourism. Phuket, Pang-Nga and Krabi, Thailand Thomas A. Birkland
Cross-cultural comparison of embergent norms govering the handling of mass fatalitites Social government and non-government response for body recovery, identification and disposal, notification of deceased victims. They will be conducting interviews. To identify structural differences between the mass fatalities approach used in western countriesvs approach used in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand 1st team India, Sri Lanka, Phuket Thailnad. 2nd team UK, France, Sweden, Isreal, USA Hank Fisher
Social Vulnerability Mapping and GIS in Tsunami Impact AnalysisProject Summary Social Data Indian census and local government records, households interviews. Remote Sensing Data Sattelite images. To address some gaps in the scientific research on social and physical vulnerability assessments. Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu, India Carla Prater carla_at_archone.tamu.edu
Role of coastal ecosystem degradation in tsunami damage Remote Sensing Satelite images to select survey sites. Environmental The study will provide insights into role of ecosystem degradation, remote sensing as a research tool, and environmental conservation as a mitigation strategy. Andaman cost of Thailand Philip R. Berke pberke_at_email.unc.edu
Indian Ocean Tsunamis - Environmental and Social-economic impacts on the Malay-Thai Peninsula Geological Tsunami Deposits, Paleo-tsunami and sedmentology Environmental fishing records, interviews. Societal responses, actions, reactions, intentions and plans for rebuilding. To elucidate the immediate pre- and post-tsunami trajectory of events and impacts associated with the 2004 tsunami. Thailand, Andaman Sea, Malaysia Benjamin P. Horton bphorton_at_sas.upenn.edu