Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024 Phases 1 & 2

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The Call For Participation for Phase 2 of the Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024 is available here in HTML or PDF format. Applications close September 18, 2024. There is a bidders’ Q&A webinar scheduled for September 12 @ 9:00 AM US Eastern. Click here to attend using GoTo Meeting.

Further information on Phase 2 is available below.

Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024 – 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:

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.

MilestoneDateActivity
M010 November 2023Public Release: Call for Participation for initial 2024 activities
M0211 December 2023Bidders Q&A Webinar – Recording
Bidders Q&A Webinar – Slides
Bidders Q&A Webinar – Transcript
See Appendix D for written Questions and Answers
M0330 January 2024Proposals Due for initial 2024 activities
M0428-29 February 20242-day Kick-off workshop for implementation
M0510 May 2024Use Cases and Interim Engineering Reports (IERs) submitted
M0629 May 2024Work-in-progress Virtual Demo
M0717 June 2024Live demos at the OGC Member Meeting in Montreal, Canada
M0828 June 2024Engineering Report draft submission
M0926 July 2024Report submitted for evaluation by the Climate Resilience DWG & Emergency Response DWG
by SeptemberEngineering report voting
by SeptemberEngineering report publication
3-5 December 2024Progress and outcomes highlighted at OGC Innovation Days in Washington DC
Key dates for current CDRP activities.

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

The Call For Participation (CFP) for the initial set of activities in 2024 is closed! The Pilot Kickoff took place February 28-29, 2024.

A Bidders Q&A webinar was held on December 11, 2023. See the Call For Participation document for more information and links to the recording.


Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024 – Phase 2

The Call For Participation for Phase 2 of the Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024 is available here in HTML or PDF format. Applications close September 18, 2024. There is a bidders’ Q&A webinar scheduled for August 29 @ 9:00 AM US Eastern. Click here to attend using GoTo Meeting.

The OGC Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 24 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 CDRP24.2 Pilot has three general objectives

The Technical Objectives of the the OGC Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024.2 will be realized through four work tasks:

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 CDRP24.2 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. 

OGC welcomes proposals to participate in its Initiatives from any organization or individual. You do not need to be a member of OGC to propose to participate. However, if your organization’s proposal is selected, you or your organization must become an OGC member if not already one. This is to ensure all participants have equal access to the tools and documentation developed and shared throughout the project phase.

A full overview of the project, its goal and objectives, work items & deliverables, different ways to participate, and how to submit a proposal, are described in the CDRP24.2 Call For Participation Document.

The project timeline is available below.

This CDRP24.2 Pilot explores the potential of generative AI in the context of operational platforms and data offerings (right, orange), considering the domain-specific needs of the climate resilience and emergency management communities (left).

Key Phase 2 Milestones and Ongoing Activities

MilestonesDateDescription
M0107 August July 2024Public Release: Call for Participation
M0229 August 2024Questions due for Bidders Q&A Webinar GoToMeeting information, 9:00 AM EDT
M0318 September 2024Proposals Due at 23:59 EDT
M0407 October 20243h Kick-off workshop, hybrid session, online attendance possible, physical meeting at the OGC coding sprint, at ECMWF, Bonn, Germany
M0503-05 December 2024Optional in-person demo at OGC Innovation Days Washington DC, USA
M0614 January 2025Virtual demonstration meeting – Engineering Report draft submission
M0731 January 2025Pilot report submitted for evaluation by OGC working group
M0828 February 2025End of CDRP24.2

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Climate, Climate Change, Disaster Resilience, Earth Observation, Spatial Data Infrastructure

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