Ergo: Open Source Platform for Multi-Hazard Assessment, Response and Planning​

* Free, public seminar — all welcome *
 

Abstract

Ergo is an open source multi-hazard assessment, response, and planning platform that is supported by the Ergo consortium of users and developers led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The Ergo platform is a spatially enabled, extensible, semantically-aware Java plug-in based platform based on the Eclipse Rich Client platform (RCP) that allows developers to extend the platform and add new functionality, data types, visualisations, analyses, etc. to enrich the platform capabilities.

Ergo provides support for multiple hazards including earthquake and tsunami with the ability to extend the platform to other hazards, inventories, etc. through Eclipse extension points that allow developers to plug in new capabilities. Ergo has a core set of 50+ analyses that span assessing built-in infrastructure such as buildings, bridges, pipelines, etc. for physical damage to socio-economic analyses to assess the impact of displaced population (population dislocation) and short-term shelter needs. Ergo users can extend the platform by providing new data (fragilities, functionality, etc.) so the platform uses the state-of-the-art input data when assessing their infrastructure and Ergo developers can extend the platform by providing new analytical capabilities representing the state-of-the-art science and engineering understanding so Ergo remains at the forefront of multi-hazard assessment, response and planning.

In addition to the work done by the consortium, Ergo has several active communities extending the platform to meet their specific needs including IN-CORE for the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (USA), CaribeViz for seismic risk assessment application for Caribbean states, Ergo-CRC for the Convergence Research Center for Disaster-Hazard Resilience (S. Korea), software development for Eu-CIRCLE.

This talk will share the Ergo platform with use cases and recent activities around the Ergo platform.

Speaker bio

Dr Jong S. Lee is a Principal Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and co-leads the Innovative Software and Data Analysis group (ISDA) at NCSA. His research interests focus on designing, developing and operating end-to-end cyberenvironments supporting various research and education communities. He is particularly interested in the role of geographic information sciences and systems in cyberenvironments of various scientific domains. Current representative projects include NSF CIF21 DIBBs - Brown Dog (Co-PI), Ergo: Seismic Risk Assessment Systems, Great Lakes to Gulf Virtual Observatory, and GeoStreaming Data Framework (API and Dashboard), and DataWolf: Scientific Workflow Systems. Via those projects, he is collaborating with various scientific domains such as Hazard management, hazard risk assessment, agricultural food market system, environmental engineering, water management, CFD (Computation Fluid Dynamics) simulation, sensor web, etc.

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