BUILDING STRONG ® Purpose: Develop tools for 3-7 day forecast of socio-cultural and hydrologic conditions to support small unit early entry and disaster relief operations. Products: • Framework for assessing hydrologic impacts on social vulnerability • Maps showing social vulnerability coupled with water depth and inundation duration • Data requirements to drive OCONUS application of vulnerability analyses Payoff: • Improved soldier preparedness on early entry, both for force projection and for disaster relief • Deliver capabilities usable by Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE), COCOM analysts and planners, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA), National Geospatial Agency, DoS, and USAID. Water Security Schedule & Cost MILESTONES FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 Sociocultur al vulnerabili ty /resilience analysis & tools Novel algorithms for hydrologic models Integrated modeling capability AT40 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.6 3 5 3 5 Status: New 3 5 Total: $2.4M Water Security Frameworks Localized Systems Models Remote & Historic Data Localized Hydrological Models Localized Indices & Decision Support
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BUILDING STRONG®1
Purpose:
Develop tools for 3-7 day forecast of socio-cultural and hydrologic conditions to support small unit early entry and disaster relief operations.
Products:
• Framework for assessing hydrologic impacts on social vulnerability
• Maps showing social vulnerability coupled with water depth and inundation duration
• Data requirements to drive OCONUS application of vulnerability analyses
Payoff:
• Improved soldier preparedness on early entry, both for force projection and for disaster relief
• Deliver capabilities usable by Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE), COCOM analysts and planners, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA), National Geospatial Agency, DoS, and USAID.
6. Transition Milestones: Basin to reach scale hydrology capability for ungauged basins
(FY13&14)Coupled hydrology and social-cultural (FY15)
7. Endorsements: BG DeLuca, NAD
8. Other Work Package Attributes:
1. What is the problem?• Small units entering a theater can’t anticipate the hydrologic
conditions they’ll face and how those conditions will translate into social and cultural challenges.
2. What are the barriers to solving this problem?• Can’t yet predict how local populations will respond to flood events
because socio-cultural analyses don’t include hydrologic drivers• Limited access to hydrologic and socio-cultural data needed• Methods for inferring and deriving hydrologic parameters from
remote sources are inadequate. The time to solution and obtaining fine (meter, daily) scale predictions are particular limitations.
3. How will you overcome those barriers?• Develop an analytical framework for coupling short-term weather
forecasts, hydrologic modeling, and localized analysis of social vulnerability/resilience
• Pre-build socio-cultural models for regions of interest to include potential incursions and areas commonly in need of disaster relief
• Develop novel algorithms for remotely sensed-data that enable or improve inference and derivation of necessary hydrological data.
4. What is the capability you are developing?
Software tool to allow analysts to combine pre-built socio-cultural models with short-term weather forecasts. The result is a quick turn planning tool that can be prepared in 1 wk/1 mo describing impacts of hydrologic events upon socio-cultural factors using integrated information analysis, thus giving soldiers a better understanding of• The conditions they’ll face• The needs of the local population• An ability to prioritize needs and better allocate resources
5. Quantitative Metrics:
Measure Current Prog. Obj. Army Obj. TRLHydrologic and OCONUS stimuli in socio-cultural models
Only CONUS cultural data and no hydrologic forcings
Include hydrologic and local-cultural stimuli for at least 4 regions of interest
Understand social response to hydrologic events in the cultural context of AFRICOM, EUCOM, PACOM, SOUTHCOM
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Coupling of hydrology and socio-cultural models
Not coupled at all. Any assessments done separately.
Couple the two capabilities so that either one could be used to drive the other.
Information synthesis; transform data rapidly into usable knowledge for logistics to culture and economics
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Large scale weather/hydrology in unguaged basins
1 year to develop a large scale model, poor data quality
1 month to develop a large scale model
Understanding dynamics via remote sensing and predictive modeling