Geoscience Australia (GA)Support for Emergency Management

Annual Preparedness Briefs 2015/2016Monica Osuchowski - Emergency Management Coordinator

Overview

• Spatial support to the CCC

• Geographic and exposure information

• Hazard detection and alerting

• Satellite imagery for disaster events

• How to contact us and access data

GA Support for Emergency Management

Spatial support to the CCCLiaison Officers

Spatial support to the CCCNational Situational Awareness Tool (NSAT)

• Facilitated through the Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia (EMSINA) members

• NSAT publishes web feeds where available

• Jurisdiction notifications, warning and alerts

• Jurisdiction burn scar polygons

• BOM’s tropical cyclone tracks etc.

• Enables consistent national situation awareness

• Supports planning of resources across jurisdictions and recovery decisions

National Exposure Information System (NEXIS)

• Information on what is exposed within an event footprint, or area of interest, is required to understand the potential impacts to the community

• Consists of baseline information about populations, buildings, agriculture commodities and infrastructure

• Integrated spatial and non-spatial data managed in a spatial framework

• Incorporates spatial and statistical modelling

Physical Location, Size and Shape

$Economic Characteristics

Demographic or Social Characteristics

Structural Characteristics

Construction Period

Land Use

Land Ownership

Administrative Area

Baseline Information: Exposure

Area of Interest

Infrastructure

Agriculture

Demographics

Buildings

Event Identifier

Available upon request to the CCC

Hazard detectionSentinel Hotspots

Hazard detectionEarthquake

Hazard detectionEarthquake Alerts

Hazard detectionFelt and damage radius

Satellite imagery for disaster eventscontext / preparedness / recovery

Water Observations From Space

MODIS

Landsat

Optical Geospatial Radar and Elevation (OGRE) Panel

International Charter for Space and Major Disasters - COMDISPLAN

Satellite support provided last year

TC Lam (NT) and TC Marcia (QLD)1. GA activated the International Charter for Space and Major Disasters2. Provided ‘public good’ imagery from Landsat and MODIS

Products delivered • Detailed and overview maps• Surface water detection and optical imagery• Raw data via ftp site

TC Lam     TC Marcia    

Type Received Useful Type Received Useful

High resolution optical 4 2 High resolution optical 24 4

Medium resolution optical 17 0 Medium resolution optical 12 0

Synthetic Aperture RADAR 13 2 Synthetic Aperture RADAR 10 2

Total 34 4 Total 46 6

Activating the International Charter

Australian Government Crisis Coordination Centre

COMDISPLANACTIVATED

Delivery of products as agreed with each State/

Territory

Supporting agencies

GIS and technical support

Event

State/Territory agency responsible for coordinating

the emergency response

Geoscience Australia

For Geoscience Australia (GA) data

http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/hazards/emergency-management/

awareness-and-analysis-mapping

For Geoscience Australia (GA) support during events

contact the CCC

ccc@ag.gov.au

1300 243 222

Thank you