Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot Phases 1 & 2

Further information on Phase 2 is available below.

Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot – Phase 1

Our climate is evolving at a rapid pace, and with it comes unprecedented uncertainties through larger, and more frequent disasters. With the ever present threat of rising sea levels, droughts, wildfires, flooding, and more, we must accelerate our readiness for climate change and improve our resiliency to disasters. In order to achieve this we must enhance and improve the climate data value chain to create better climate and disaster information for decision makers.

As a follow on from 5+ years of successes through the Climate Resilience Pilot and series of Disaster Pilots and forms, OGC brings you the Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024 (CDRP24). The next phase of an ongoing OGC disaster and climate initiative, CDRP24 is focused on delivering impacts through interoperable geospatial technologies and standards, all to help combat climate and disasters.

CDRP24 will consist of individual threads that each work towards specific end-user, stakeholder, and technical goals that advance our climate and/or disaster understanding and readiness while also seeding collaboration between these two related domains.

While building upon the knowledge gained from past pilots, the intent of the Pilot is to:

• Enhance climate and disaster services by moving the underpinning technical systems towards FAIR Climate & Disaster Services: collaborative and equitable Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable systems that provide information-on-demand to understand, trace, mitigate, adapt, and respond.
• Build sustainable relationships between science domains, researchers, decision makers, and data & systems providers.
• Identify the stakeholder’s information and knowledge needs and tailor innovative solutions that promote community and environmental resilience across disparate science and social domains accordingly.
• Improve visualization, use-case driven simulations, and communication approaches. 
• Improve interactivity and interchanges with OGC’s sponsors, members, and participants to ensure the greatest applicability and a broader scope and impact.

Key Phase 1 Milestones and Ongoing Activities

The Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot is a key initiative of the OGC COSI program. In parallel with the current set of research and prototype development activities, the development of further deliverables and opportunities to participate are in development. These will be announced as they become available and are anticipated in the spring and summer of 2024.

OGC members can review work-in-progress and the demonstrations at the OGC Member Meeting are open to non-members.

Participants

Participants in the Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot are co-funded by the Pilot’s Sponsors to provide staff time and expertise, contribute data and infrastructure components, and travel for meetings. The amount of funding for each participant is decided individually based on their scope of work. All participants are expected to provide in-kind support to the Pilot to match the OGC funding they receive. OGC membership fees may be covered through the funding.

Selected Participants:

ESRI.inc
GIS Research Center, Feng Chia University
GeoLabs
Laubwerk GmbH
Navteca
NYC Geospatial Information Systems and Mapping Organization (NYC GISMO)
Safe Software
Terraframe
TU Dresden
HARTIS Integrated Nautical Services
Voyager Search
Xentity
alpS GmbH
George Mason University
Wuhan University
HSR Health
WiTech GmbH

Sponsors

Funding is available for participants supported by sponsorship from organizations including:

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Agency of Rural Development and Soil and Water Conservation of Taiwan (ARDSWC)

Supporters

Support for participants including computational resources and data are made available by:

Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
Amazon
AmeriGeo

Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot – Phase 2 (CDRP.2)

The OGC Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot is a two-phase project that assembles a consortium of partners to address the challenges shared between Climate- and Disaster-Resilience, and bridge the use of geospatial data and technologies across the two applications.

The Pilot’s first phase focused on Analysis-Ready Data (ARD), its integration into analysis workflows, and the effective incorporation of contextual and domain-specific knowledge. In the second phase, the focus now shifts to AI tools working on ARD and their integration into analysis workflows.

The Pilot offers different ways for interested organizations to participate: there are the defined work items and deliverables, but organizations may also give time to help in the co-design process, or provide funding, in-kind contributions, paid services, or resources such as data sets or access to infrastructure, and more. Learn more in the Call For Participation document.

OGC CDRP Phase 2 Pilot (CDRP.2) has three general objectives: 

• The first objective looks at existing services, data, information models, and platforms from the perspective of the generative AI developer. 
• The second objective examines the specific capabilities that can currently be realized through AI tools. 
• The third objective focuses on the various platforms’ existing services and data offerings as well as information models. The project examines how these can be optimally developed based on the FAIR principles.

The Technical Objectives of the the OGC Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot Phase 2 will be realized through four work tasks:

• Task 1: Enhancing Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and other Copernicus Sectoral Information Systems (CSIS). The CSIS are specialized services developed within the framework of C3S to provide tailored climate information and tools for specific sectors, such as Tourism, Insurance, Shipping, Biodiversity, and more. The goal is to support decision-making processes in various sectors by offering relevant and actionable climate data and projections.
• Task 2: Generative AI virtual assistants featuring Large Language Models for Climate Communications.
• Task 3: Maturity of ARD sources and state-of-the-art Generative AI technology on workflows for wildfire risk, hazard, and impact workflows typical in the insurance sector.
• Task-4: Ontologies for emergency and disaster management.

The challenge of successfully using generative AI tools is more than purely technical. It is a matter of integrating a wide range of interests and requirements, and applying them in an ecosystem of users, policies, services, and data. Therefore, the CDRP.2 initiative aims to engage a broad cross-section of stakeholders—including not only data/service providers and users, but also researchers, responders, community members, and beyond—to shape a connected ecosystem of data, technologies, and practices. 

The Pilot provides an outstanding opportunity to connect with stakeholders across the Climate, Disaster, and Emergency Management ecosystem. It allows participants to engage with the latest research on geospatial system design, concept development, and rapid prototyping with organizations (Sponsors & Participants) across the globe. The initiative provides a business opportunity for stakeholders to mutually define, refine, and evolve service interfaces and protocols in the context of hands-on experience and feedback. 

Though the Call For Participation has now closed, a full overview of the project, its goal and objectives, work items & deliverables, etc. are described in the CDRP.2 Call For Participation Document.

The project timeline is available below.

Key Phase 2 Milestones and Ongoing Activities