Download - GEM's Mission and Vision [Sep 2012]
GEM: the mission and vision
Anselm Smolka, Chairman Governing Board, GEM Foundation
What is GEM?
“A collaborative effort devised and launched by OECD’s Global Science Forum, aimed at engaging the global community in the transparent design, development and deployment of uniform open standards and tools for earthquake risk assessment worldwide”
Why GEM?
Why GEM?
The rationale I
Global Seismic Risk:
Earthquake disasters since 2004
The rationale II
‣ advanced seismic hazard and risk assessment tools and resources out of reach for many potential users
‣ similar issues, different approaches
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Public-private partnership
‣ Combining the strengths, knowledge and needs of both sectors‣ Growing: currently 10 companies, 15 public organizations
representing nations or regions, 8 international organizations
Looking at risk holistically
Collaborative Development
‣ Data‣ Tools‣ Best Practice
TESTING & EVALUATION FACILITY
Global Projects: Hazard
Global Earthquake History
Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue
Global Active Fault and Seismic Source Database
Global Ground-Motion Prediction Equations
Global Geodetic Strain Rate Model
Global Projects: Exposure and physical vulnerability
GEM Ontology and TaxonomyGlobal Exposure Database
Global Earthquake Consequences DatabaseGlobal Vulnerability Estimation Methods
Inventory Data Capture Tools
Global Projects: Social Vulnerability and Resilience
ProjectDevelopment of indices and tools for integrated risk assessment
GoalFacilitate the implementation of indicators, indices, and assessment standards for capturing the social vulnerability, disaster resilience, and indirect (economic) loss vulnerability of societies to earthquake impacts.
Regional Collaboration
SHARE, NERA, Syner-G EMME EMCA
Regional workshops
By creating regional programmes and networks scientists in the different countries can provide feedback on global standards and bring in local data and knowledge.
Worldwide collaboration
Since starting in 2009 GEM has become a truly global effort
Tools, software, GIS-platform
Open-source development of software and IT-infrastructure
GEM in a nutshell
‣ State-of the-art‣ Transparent and open ‣ Independent‣ Commmunity owned‣ Global‣ Standardized, but flexible‣ Rigorous testing & validating ‣ Accessible‣ Serving multiple users
Dynamic Risk Assessment Platform
‣ model, analyse, explore, share
‣ different ‘suites’ tailored to our stakeholders
‣ first version 2014
‣ transparency
‣ common data exchange format
‣ models, tools, data
Using the platform
Develop custom output and risk information
Custom hazard, loss and risk maps
Create event-loss tables, get insight into average annual loss and occurrence exceedence probability, obtain spatial distributions of cost-benefit ratio’s
Use GEM risk information
Access and use GEM maps, graphs, indices and other infoOverlay maps to have a better understanding of risk componentsAccess documentation to get insight into the methodologies and approaches
Results and outputs
OpenQuake Engine tested and used in more than 45 countries
Already used for national hazard maps, regional programmes, scientific projects
Results and outputs
Global projects are delivering more and more output as they are progressing. Some examples: - The ISC-GEM global instrumental
catalogue- A taxonomy of buildings worldwide,
plus an online glossary- A report on pre-selection of ground
motion prediction equations [GMPEs] for the globe
- A report on guidelines for data collection for earthquake consequence data
See www.nexus.globalquakemodel.org
Vision
‣ Working together to assess risk: worldwide use of the
OpenQuake Platform and other resources
‣ Extending and enhancing tools and methods
‣ Technology transfer and knowledge exchange
‣ Intensified regional collaboration
‣ New global projects: other and secondary perils, time
dependence/aftershocks, infrastructure
=> Staying there, alive and dynamic
Roadmap
Get involved
‣ JOIN: Become a public or private participant and sustain the effort
‣ SUPPORT: Fund regional activities, (global) projects or technology transfer
‣ EXPLORE: Try GEM tools as they become available and provide feedback
‣ REGION: Share knowledge and data within a regional programme
‣ SCIENCE: Provide feedback on the global best practice
‣ DATA: Collaborate on data to enhance the global datasets for everyone’s use
‣ DEVELOP: Join one of our open-source projects
‣ FOLLOW: Stay up-to-date through our newsletter and website
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