Welcome to the Summer Meeting for the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)! The 2017 theme is Strengthening Ties Between Observations and User Communities. The theme is based on one of the goals in the 2015 - 2020 ESIP Strategic Plan, which provides a framework for ESIP’s activities over the next three years.
As part of the joint ESIP-All Hazards Consortium (AHC) Data Driven Decision Making (3DM) collaboration, the Disasters Lifecycle cluster is participating in an activity to develop use cases. The AHC group is looking to enhance disaster response decision making with better data. This breakout session will review and refine the process by which ESIP members analyze the AHC use cases to derive key information to identify relevant candidate data sets. We will look at what it will take to prepare and test data sets, and if determined to be useful, address how to make the data sets operational. We will review ongoing work on exercises, such as Cascadia Rising, as well as Operational Readiness Levels (ORLs) for maturing data sets through the ESIP GeoCollaboration Testbed. Ideally we may develop a pathfinder data set to exercise the data use strategy.
