GEOG Seminar 11/16: Randy Goss, "Geospatial Compute at Scale to Support FEMA's Future of Flood Risk Data"

Join us for our weekly seminar on Thursday, Nov. 16 from 3:45-5 p.m. at River Road room 325 and on Zoom to hear GIS scientist Randy Goss discuss flood risk management and geospatial technology.

Abstract:

FEMA’s Future of Flood Risk Data (FFRD) is a series of agile exploratory projects designed to help define the future direction of the National Flood Insurance Program mapping products. It aims to provide more comprehensive hazard and risk information, complementing the improvements in flood risk communication from the Risk Rating 2.0 program. Hydrologic modeling and subsequent geospatial products at the national level require computing resources that significantly exceed the capability of conventional geospatial products.  Consequently, tools and frameworks were developed to facilitate scalable geospatial processing in commodity cloud environments.  This presentation will review the FFRD program, its unique requirements, the solution for stochastic hydrologic modeling computation, and the associated geospatial products.

Speaker:

Randy Goss is a senior scientific system developer for the Remote Sensing/Geographic Information Systems Center of Expertise for the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. With a wealth of experience, his past and current work in flood risk modeling is the basis for decisions for many natural hazard risk planning and mitigation efforts all across the Federal government.

Zoom Info: For Zoom details, please visit our Department Calendar on Google or reach out to trietn28@terpmail.umd.edu or abaansah@terpmail.umd.edu. 

Additional Note: Jon Hathaway has courteously invited everyone attending this seminar session to stay for a Poster Symposium from the MSGIS & GEOINT Capstone course. The Symposium will follow immediately after the presentation (5:15-7:45 p.m.). Free food will be provided, attendees to the Symposium should RSVP using this link.