SGER: Exploratory Research on Sensor Based Infrastructure for Early Tsunami Detection

这一探索性研究小额赠款提案将信息技术界和灾害管理界的专家聚集在一起，重点关注有效的海啸减灾基础设施的一个关键要素，即早期和准确地发现潜在的海啸威胁。拟议的研究将确定和审查与制定全面综合的社会技术解决办法有关的问题，以便及早发现影响南亚区域的海啸（及相关威胁）。研究小组将寻求动态的、自适应的、健壮的基础设施，这些基础设施可以从一组小的原始传感器进化成一个能够准确可靠地感知和通信数据的知识网络。主要成果将是研究设计一种可行的、低成本的系统，用于在陆地基础设施系统中利用地震运动的确凿信息早期探测海啸；这项研究的主要成果将包括：1)组建一个跨学科的国际领导和专家团队，以开发海啸预警系统和监管机构面临的短期和长期技术挑战；2)确定现有海啸预警系统的操作局限性，重点放在需要重大改进的领域；3)说明开发可行且具有成本效益的海啸早期探测系统的主要要求；4)识别开发和部署符合指定要求的准确可靠的系统所面临的技术挑战，并概述解决这些挑战的可能方法；5)确定一个完全整合的社会技术早期检测系统的社会挑战。这项研究的更广泛影响包括制定社会技术方法，以便及早发现和减轻海啸及相关地震威胁，并为减少灾害风险领域的社会技术研究人员设计专业教育和培训。这两种影响都将对使风险易发社区更有效地减少灾害风险产生重大影响。

This proposal for a Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) brings together experts from the information technology and disaster management communities to focus on a key element for an effective tsunami mitigation infrastructure, namely the early and accurate detection of potential tsunami threats. The proposed research will identify and examine issues related to the development of a fully integrated socio-technical solution for early tsunami (and related threats) detection that affect the South Asian region. The research team will seek dynamic, adaptive, and robust infrastructures that can evolve from a small set of primitive sensors into a knowledge network capable of sensing and communicating data accurately and reliably. The primary outcome will be a research design for a feasible, low-cost system for early detection of tsunamis with corroborating information from seismic movement in land-based infrastructure systems;The key products of this research will include: 1) formation of an interdisciplinary, international team of leaders and experts to develop short-term and long-term technological challenges faced by tsunami warning systems and regulators; 2) identification of the operational limitations of present tsunami warning systems, with a focus on areas of major improvement; 3) specification of the major requirements for the development of a feasible and cost-effective tsunami early detection system; 4) identification of the technical challenges to the development and deployment of an accurate and reliable system which meets the specified requirements and outline possible approaches to their solution; and 5) determination of the social challenges for a fully integrated socio-technical early detection system.The broader impacts of this research include the development of socio-technical approaches to the early detection and mitigation of tsunamis and related seismic threats, and to the design of professional education and training for socio-technical researchers in the field of disaster risk reduction. Both impacts will have a significant effect in enabling risk-prone communities to reduce disaster risk more effectively.