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

这项探索性研究小额赠款（SGER）提案汇集了来自信息技术和灾害管理界的专家，重点关注有效海啸缓解基础设施的一个关键要素，即早期准确地检测潜在的海啸威胁。 拟议的研究将查明和审查与制定一个充分综合的社会技术解决办法，以便及早发现影响南亚区域的海啸（和相关威胁）有关的问题。 研究团队将寻求动态、自适应和强大的基础设施，这些基础设施可以从一小组原始传感器发展成为能够准确可靠地感知和传输数据的知识网络。主要成果将是研究设计一个可行的、低成本的系统，利用陆基基础设施系统中地震运动的确证信息，早期探测海啸;这项研究的主要成果将包括：1）组建一个由领导人和专家组成的跨学科国际小组，以研究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，重点是需要重大改进的领域; 3）具体说明开发可行和具有成本效益的海啸早期探测系统的主要要求;四、确定开发和部署符合规定要求的准确可靠系统的技术挑战，这项研究的更广泛影响包括制定社会技术办法，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。这两种影响都将在使易受风险的社区能够更有效地减少灾害风险方面产生重大影响。

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.