RAPID: Acquisition and curation of time-sensitive field data from severely flooded neighborhoods in New York City from tropical storm Ophelia for environmental sustainability study

最近的极端气候事件在纽约市和东海岸的其他沿海城镇造成了灾难性的后果。热带风暴奥菲利亚的残留带来了强度破纪录的暴雨，导致大片社区被淹，交通系统关闭，学校被困，财产受损。从9月21日星期四开始，纽约市部分地区的降雨量超过8英寸。9月28日至周五29.由于这些洪水事件，易腐数据，如高水位标志，表明在不同的社区洪水的水平是高度的时间敏感性，需要及时的反应，以保存为未来的研究。迫切需要收集和整理数据，以了解和分析社区的脆弱性，特别是服务不足的社区。该项目的目的是收集易腐烂的数据在社区被严重淹没，包括洪水事件后被淹没的社区高水位标志的图像和预测和记录的降水量，以帮助利益相关者评估他们的设计准则，为未来的洪水事件和减灾计划。来自卫星图像、天气雷达图像、道路摄像机的多模式数据，以及人们在社交媒体帖子中的反应也将被收集和策划，以备将来用于构建延时和高保真可视化工具，以帮助利益相关者和社区做出更明智的决策，并探索更有效的外联和洪水风险沟通。超局部规模的敏感易腐数据为研究极端气候下社区的环境可持续性提供了宝贵的数据。在交互式地图中表示和解释这些数据可以为利益相关者和风险社区提供易于消化的信息，以分析风险并制定更有效的缓解计划的战略。这一项目的成果将有助于解决以下问题：纽约市如何准备应对飓风桑迪和艾达以来的极端天气事件，如何以及何时发布天气警报，低洼和洪水易发地区的社区如何获得信息并为紧急情况做好准备，现有哪些基础设施项目以及如何评估其有效性，在制作当前洪水图时使用了哪些数据，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Recent extreme climate events have caused disastrous outcomes in New York City and other coastal towns on the east coast. Torrential rain with record-breaking intensity brought by the remnants of tropical storm Ophelia left large areas of neighborhoods flooded, transportation systems shut down, schools stranded, and properties damaged. More than 8 inches of rain fell in parts of the NYC from Thursday Sept. 28 to Friday Sept. 29. As the result of these flooding events, perishable data such as high-water marks indicating the level of flooding in different neighborhoods are highly time-sensitive and require timely response to be preserved for future study. There is an urgent need to collect and curate data to understand and analyze vulnerabilities in the communities especially underserved ones. The objective of this project is to collect perishable data in neighborhoods that were severely flooded including images of the high-water marks of flooded neighborhood post flooding events and the forecasted and recorded precipitation to help stakeholders assess their design guidelines for future flooding events and mitigation plans. Multi-modal data from satellite imagery, weather radar imagery, road cameras, as well as people’s responses in social media posts will also be collected and curated for potential future use in building time lapse and high-fidelity visualization tools to help stakeholders and communities with more informed decision making and explore more effective outreach and flood-risk communications.Documenting time-sensitive perishable data on a hyperlocal scale provides valuable data for the study of environmental sustainability of communities under climate extremes. Representing and interpreting these data in an interactive map could provide stakeholders and at-risk communities with easy-to-digest information to analyze risk and develop strategies for more effective mitigation plans. This outcome of this project will help address such questions as how New York City is prepared to respond to such weather extreme events since Hurricanes Sandy and Ida, how and when weather warnings are issued, how communities in low-lying and flood-prone areas are informed and prepared for emergency, what are the infrastructure projects in place and how to assess their effectiveness, what data was used in generating the current flood map, and are there more targeted infrastructure solutions to protect the communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.