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Session 3 – 14:30-16:00

Disaster Risk Management

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Disaster Risk Management - Agenda

Topic Presenter Representing

Welcome and Introductions Ms Sara Huntingdon UK Space Agency

Session Chair - Overview John Rees British Geological Survey

Government roles Will Hall Cabinet Office, CCS

Government resources David Hodgson DMCii, International Charter

Government use – meteorology Jenny Rourke Met Office

Applications – SatcommsDRR Graham Peters Avanti

Applications – Pluvial Flood

Forecasting

David Martin Ambiental Risk Analytics

Applications - EASOS Mark Hampson Satellite Applications Catapult

Panel debate and Q&A All

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Disaster Risk Management Session Chair John Rees

British Geological SurveyChair of Disaster Research GroupGCRF Challenge Leader for DRM:

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William Hall

Civil Contingencies Secretariat

Cabinet Office

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Understanding

risks: NRA and

NSRA

Scanning

and

response

Recovery

Legislation and doctrine

Guidance and training

Civil Contingencies Secretariat

Policy and Operational leadership

Being ready:

- Capabilities

programme

- Infrastructure

programme

- Major risks

programmes

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• The UK government need to ensure that they are able to facilitate rapid co-ordination of the central government response and effective decision making in an emergency

Types of risks and emergencies

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Example Activations

Recent activations include:

• Guatemala – FUEGO Volcano

• Manchester Wildfires

• Natural England – Environmental Impact

• Yemen – Tropical Cyclone “Mekunu”

• Scottish Flooding

• Caribbean Hurricanes – ‘Pre-activation’

Key focus – Responding to and recovering from disasters and emergencies.

Key challenge – how to best obtain usable data to improve the efficiency of the response & recovery to

disasters? Especially keen to see if there are apps or other technology to improve how we ‘use’ data

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Space Based Government Services for Disaster Management

David HodgsonInternational Charter: Space and Major Disasters

UK Space Agency Supported

emergency.copernicus.eudisasterscharter.org

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International Charter: Space and Major Disasters

Free and Fast Satellite Imagery for Emergency Response

Global humanitarian effort (17 Space Agencies, All Major Commercial Operators)

• Priority Access Satellite Imagery

• Disaster response

• Multi-satellite - Free Data

• Tasked and Archive data

• Data processing to pre-determined level

UK Authorised Users

Civil Contingencies Secretariat (CCS)

DFID

ABAE VRSS-1

CNES PLEIADES, SPOT

CNSA CBERS, SJ-9A, GF-1 / GF-2, FY-3CCONAE SAC-C

CSA RADARSAT-1, RADARSAT-2

DLRTerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X

RapidEye

UKSA UK-DMC2

ESA SENTINEL-1, SENTINEL-2

ISROLISS-4, LISS-3, AWIFS, Cartosat-1,

Cartosat-2INPE CBERS-2

JAXA ALOS, ALOS-2, KIBO HDTV-EF

KARI KOMPSAT-2, KOMPSAT-3, KOMPSAT-5

NOAA POES, SUOMI-NPP, GOES

ROSCOSMOS

RESURS-DK, METEOR-M, KANOPUS-V,

RESURS-P

USGSLandsat-7, Landsat-8, Quickbird,

Worldview, Geoeye-1

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EC Copernicus EMS

Mapping for Disaster Management

Rapid Mapping

• Reference maps

• Delineation maps

• Grading maps

Risk & Recovery Mapping

• Pre-disaster situation maps

• Post-disaster situation maps

Early Warning

• Fire (also fire monitoring)

• Floods

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What are the next steps?

1. Growth in UK User Community

1. Awareness raising and training for UK government users.

2. Support in using the services.

2. Support for International Users

1. Training and access support.

2. Information for IPP projects.

3. Integration with other UK DRM/Space Activities (NHP, IPP, CEOS …)

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Dr Jenny Rourke

Use of satellites in operational meteorology – in support of weather impacted disasters

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Observations used by the Met Office

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How are the satellite observations used?

70 Levels

Global – 12 km

Regional – 4 km

UK – 1.5 km

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What benefits do satellite observations bring?

This is the typical impact of

observations on our global weather

forecast model →

Remember that imagery is used

directly to see what is currently going on

with the weather!

28% 18%

6%

10%

11%27%

EPS / Metop

NOAA

Other Operational LEO

GEO

Other space and RO

Surface-based

Relative contribution to

global 24h forecast

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How does this help us support weather impacted disasters?

• Wind, rain, storm surge

• Andrew mdf, storm surge video, wind graphic

Wind Rain Storm surge

Can reach winds of more

than 150 mph with gusts as

high as 200 mph.

Record: Hurricane Patricia

(2015) sustained winds of

215 mph!

Water piles up and is

pushed towards the coast as

the tropical cyclone

approaches. Can reach

several metres high.

Once the winds die down,

rain may continue for days

inland. They can produce

75cm rain - as much as some

parts of the UK get in a year!

Hurricane

Harvey (2017)

dropped ~1.5m

of rain in 4 days

over Texas.

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How does this help us support weather impacted disasters?

National Hurricane Centre

Forecast 5 day track,

intensity and warning

areas

Location and timing of strong

winds

Hurricane Irma (2017)

Irma

Met Office Ensemble model (shown below) shows the forecast storm tracks for Hurricane Irma for next 7 days. This gave a good lead-time for disaster risk

management purposes.

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How does this help us support weather impacted disasters?

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Thank you for listening!

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SatDRR Kenya

SatDRR KenyaHarnessing satellite services to improve capacity

for prevention, response and recovery

Funding Source - IPP

Graham Peters

Director Government Solutions

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Project Overview

Kenya is prone to a wide range of disasters,

with an estimated 3 to 4 million people being

affected annually by flood, drought, famine,

flashfire, landslides, conflict or accident.

SatDRR is supporting Kenya’s push for an

enhanced Disaster Resilience capability

based on enhanced use of both satellite

communications and EO.

We are working with the Ministry of Interior, 4

County Governments and the Kenyan Red

Cross Society.

The project is running from 2018 to 2020.

Selection of 2018 News

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Satellite Service Delivery

The project will provide

• secure fixed and mobile satellite

communications via Avanti’s high

throughput HYLAS 2 satellite, providing

both a national resilient infrastructure and

emergency post disaster communications

• a flexible web-based dashboard offering a

variety of tailored EO information services

for users to access information on floods

and droughts from a variety of satellites

• an underpinning capacity building and

knowledge transfer programme delivered

by in country staff

SatDRR Satellite Coverage and end

user equipment (representative)

SatDRR Dashboard and Flood

Mapping Product (representative)

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Benefits and Lessons Learned (so far)

• Penetration of satellite utilisation is low, especially at

regional level where key disaster management

functions will be devolved

• Holistic approaches to capacity building including on

policy, operating procedures and staff training are

required to effectively exploit technology

• Disasters are frequent and systems of immediate

utility are desired

• Complex sets of stakeholders must be engaged with

in a changing landscape

• Effective and well connected on the ground partners

are key to delivery

Kenyan DM

Agencies

Avanti & Partners

Kenyan Public

Benefits Lessons Learned

Reduction in human, social and

economic impact of disasters

on affected communities

Strengthened Kenyan capacity

(people, processes, technology)

for disaster prevention,

response & recovery

Satellite comms & EO technology

effectively harnessed in Kenyan

disaster response to increase

operational efficiency & reach

Educate potential customers

and build new markets for HTS

Ka-band and EO information

services in Kenya

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Next Steps

Avanti and its partners will complete the project in Q1 2020.

Equipment and services from the pilot SatDRR platform will be transferred to

ownership of the Kenyan Ministry of Interior, County Governments and the Kenyan

Red Cross Society.

We believe that by demonstrating impact and cost effectiveness we will:

• Convince Kenyan government and NGO stakeholders to build outwards to

deliver a national satellite capability for disaster management

• Provide a case study to deliver services to other customers across Avanti’s pan

Sub-Saharan Africa coverage

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AI Satellite Pluvial Flood Forecasting(Pluvial Flood London)

David Martin & Paul Drury

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Project Overview

o Pluvial Flood London Project started in February 2018 with

Ambiental (FloodWatch) as Project Lead along with Technology

Partners Hexagon Geospatial (GreenSpace Analyser & Dashboard)

and HyDas (Social Media Verification).

o Major Stakeholders were Transport for London (TFL), Greater

London Authority (GLA) and Thames Water with interested parties

the Environment Agency, the UK Met Office and Defra.

o The original concept was to work with interested parties to address

the problem of the lack of reliable, high-precision pluvial flood

forecasting (especially problematic in cities).

o The Project Aims at the Outset were to assist the public

sector with the following:

✓ Surface Water Forecasting

✓ Dynamic Mapping of changing patterns of green space

✓ Utilising Artificial Intelligence based on social media posts

✓ Improving the efficiency of public sector asset management,

decision making and emergency response

o The concept was for key technologies to be the

powerhouse behind a Service accessed via Dashboard

Rainfall Radar

Weather Forecast

Internet API and Social Media

Remote sensing

FloodWatch™

HyDas System

GreenSpace

Analyser

Smart M.App®

Integration

Reference layers database

EnviroTracker

Visualiser

Monitoring Dashboard

Command & Control Dashboard

Risk quantification

Pluvial flood hazard alerts

Web Mapping services

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Which satellite applications were used?

The Project aimed to help the public sector to increase the uptake of

Satellite Earth Observation (EO) data via a sustainable ‘live’ satellite

enabled service consisting of:

o Ambiental FloodMap (Pluvial Flood Map Spatial Data)

o Ambiental FloodWatch (Pluvial Flood Forecasting Application)

o Hexagon Geospatial Smart M.App (Online Web Mapping & Analytics

Platform)

o HyDas Flood Chaser (Twitter Receipt & A.I. Processing Application)

o UK Met Office NowCast (Short Range High Resolution Gridded

Rainfall Forecast Data)

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FloodWatch™ Pluvial Forecast

Benefits and challenges?

o FloodWatch, GreenSpace Analyser and Social Media

Verification Modules were brought together in the

System Dashboard for the London Model.

o A system that provides ‘Actionable Intelligence’ to the

end user (Flood Forecasting & Impact, GreenSpace

Analysis (+/-) and Social Media (Twitter) Verification

and can potentially provide following to our service

users:

✓ Reduction of Pluvial Flood Risk to People,

Infrastructure & Property in London

✓ Reduction in Costs/Improvement in Investment

Potential

✓ Increased Efficiency/Smarter Operations

✓ Improved Monitoring

o Ambiental has formed strong partnerships with both

our Technology Partners and Stakeholders through

the work completed on this project and the newly

developed dashboard provides a platform for future

showcase Flood Prediction Projects for our

organisation. GreenSpace AnalyserLive Impact Forecast on Infrastructure

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Next steps?

o The end of this project is seen by Ambiental as a

‘beginning’ – the project has enabled us to work

more closely with our stakeholders and develop

working relationships with public sector bodies

such as GLA and TFL and better help them

envisage the future benefits of satellite based

data.

o Ambiental will continue working to improve the

deliverables for this project while looking at

methods that we can use to get the message of

the success of this project to a wider audience

and to bring the ‘Actionable Intelligence’ that this

system delivers for London to other cities across

the UK and Europe.

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Earth and Sea Observation System(EASOS)

Saving Lives | Preserving Nature | Enabling Government

Mark Hampson

Satellite Applications Catapult

IPP Round 1

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IPP Partners

Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency

Operations Disaster Management Division

Malaysia Civil Defence Department

Department of Marine Park Malaysia

Department of Wildlife and National Parks

(DWNP) Peninsular Malaysia

Department of Homeland Security and

Public Order Royal Malaysia Police

National Space Agency (ANGKASA)

Fire & Rescue Department of Malaysia

National Institute of Land & Survey

National Disaster Management Agency (NADMA)

Forest Research Institute Malaysia

Department of Irrigation & Drainage

Malaysia Ministry of Natural Resources

and Environment

Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia

Department of Orang Asli Development

Forestry Department Peninsular Malaysia

Ministry of Defence Malaysia

Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation

Minerals and Geoscience Department Malaysia

Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency

Department of Environment

Marine Department Malaysia

Department of Director General of Lands and Mines

National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia

Malaysian Centre for Geospatial Data Infrastructure

Janus TCD

Ambiental Ltd

Geocento

Autonaut Ltd

Plymouth Marine Laboratories

University of Oxford

University of Leicester

RiskAware

Telespazio Vega

Earth Observation Ltd

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Project Overview

Reduce the degradation to the mangrove coastline in Malaysia

by reducing marine pollution in the Malacca Straits.

Reduce the social and environmental impact of illegal logging

and increase the economic benefit from legal logging for

Malaysia.

Reduce the economic and social cost of flood events.

To deliver decision support tools on the three environmental

challenges in Malaysia to:

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Which satellite applications were used?

Harnessing the power of

geospatial and earth observation

data, EASOS is a world-leading

management information and

decision support platform that will

help to monitor and manage

government and business

challenges. Scalable

Flexible

Valuable

By design EASOS is

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Benefits and challenges

Benefits

• A world class system has been

constructed and is live generating alerts

in all 3 applications

• It has been developed to meet the

requirements expressed by the

Malaysian agencies and using their data

where possible

• Large event in Malaysia demonstrated

the capability to a wide range of

potential government users and training

provided

Challenges

• Change of government in Malaysia has

frozen budgets and replaced many key

people – this has delayed take up

• A number of “new technologies” were

evaluated in the programme, not all have

been adopted

UK partners now have a

valuable platform to build on

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Next steps?

• Engagement in Malaysia continues and will do so until the

system is in regular operational use : the new government

has expressed strong support including the Prime Minister

• The EASOS system will be offered to other governments,

agencies and industry for both sustainable development

goals and commercial value

• The EASOS system will be expanded to include new

applications

• Catapult is engaging UK industry re commercial delivery of

the applications using the EASOS brand AND with

distributors

• The EASOS brand can become a vehicle for UK export

success

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Panel Debate

Audience Q&A

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Next Session:

Closing Remarks and Announcements

Catherine Mealing-JonesDirector of Growth UK Space Agency