RAPID: Rapid Response for a Human Sensor Aware Fukishima Debris Monitor and Prediction System.

该项目的目的是通过开发对世界任何地方发生的极端事件的情况感知虚拟信息观测站，对自然灾害作出快速反应。该项目的重点是通过将物理和观测数据吸收到可操作的预测模型中，使多用户虚拟世界能够对不同类型和规模的资产进行连贯的表示。它将利用云计算服务整合这些不同的资产，将多媒体数据信息流和元标签有效地实时同化到现实世界的社会物理模型中，采用非结构化数据库，可以在这个特定的虚拟世界中查询，供分布式观众和决策者体验其影响。通过提供场景查询和测试平台，这些活动将与虚拟天文台交互，在规划事件响应时做出更有效的决策。

The purpose of the project is to provide rapid response to natural disasters by developing a situation aware virtual information observatory to extreme events occurring anywhere in the world. The project focuses on methods by which the multiuser virtual world can have a coherent representation of assets, which differ by type and scale, by assimilating the physical and observational data into operational predictive models. It will utilize cloud computing services to integrate these divergent assets for effective real time data assimilation of multimedia data information streaming and meta-tagging into real world socio-physical models, employing unstructured databases that can be queried in this specific virtual world for distributed viewers and decision makers to experience their impact. These activities will interact with the virtual observatory to make more effective decisions in planning event response by providing a scenario querying and testing platform.