Our panel intends to provide participants with an enhanced understanding of the challenges to using Earth observation data and data products from a humanitarian response and development perspective. The session will be broken out into two scenarios. The first scenario will represent the identification of data needed and decisions made in a rapid-paced environment to impact on life and property. This will capture the process of deciding what data is needed, who is at risk (vulnerable and exposed), and what elements of risk need to be communicated to ensure informed decision making, as well as exploring modalities of communication. The second scenario will represent the need for data to enable decisions following a disaster response, with the goal of informing future resilient development as well as whether people are placed in a more risk-exposed or risk-adverse environment. The second scenario will include decisions regarding relocation and how to identify settlement development that avoids unintended risks and related consequences.

The session will conclude with a formal panel discussion that walks the participants through the various roles that governance and policy (Sendai Framework), remote sensing and Artificial Intelligence, and cognitive science have to play in these short- and long-term scenarios.

Organizers

NASA/IRI/Red Cross

Contact

Shanna N. McClain; Andrew Kruczkiewicz (shanna.n.mcclain@nasa.gov)