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Making USGS information effective in the electronic age, USGS Open-File Report 03-240

APPENDIX V - CORDlink

Presentation: Murray Journeay - The Example of CordLink

Role of GeoScience Knowledge   GeoLibrary Project    Nhematis

Nhematis for Natural Hazards Planning and Assessment

Image of damage and injury maps.To conduct its analyses, NHEMATIS uses the following technologies and data:
  • Advanced models and algorithms used to predict earthquake damage from shaking, liquefaction, landslides, and fire.

  • A general algorithmic approach for estimating building damage from earthquakes, floods landslides, and other hazards.

  • Damage and Injury Map outputs based on the impacts of the hazards on combinations of different building and facility types

  • Network analysis tools for determining areas which may lose essential services due to damage to roads, pipelines, or other linear facilities

Our World - Science World

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Communications Opportunity for Natural Resources Canada

Science World - "Our World" exhibit

ExploRover:
Travelling through the
west coast, first stop:

natural hazards of the
northern Cascadia
forrearc 		Image of helicopter.
Murray Journeay, Sonia Talwar & Rob Harrap


ExploRover - a helicopter, submersisble and earth mole transformer

Image of mother ship.The Experience: Users enter the ExploRover and receive Earth observation transmissions from the mothership. The first of several missions is to explore geohazards in the forearc & the potential societal impact of these events.


While cruising over the Strait of Georgia, the user decides to take the plunge. S/he switches the device into submersible mode, splashes into the water and with X-Ray mode on, peels back the surface to explore three different types of earthquakes: subduction zone, interplate, and shallow crustal.

Locations of earthquakes and images and/or newspaper articles describing the event are presented..

[Mechanisms to rattle and shake the ExploRover to simulate earthquake are being explored.]


Image of helicopter with arrow pointing to joy stick.
Using a computer screen mounted within the instrument panel and a computer joystick located between the seats, the user accepts his/her mission and proceeds to fly over the Georgia Basin.


Image of helicopter screen.

Role of GeoScience Knowledge   GeoLibrary Project    Nhematis

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Title Page / Summary / Introduction / Goals / Overview /  Outcome

Appendices:  I. Agenda /  II. Vision / III. Earth Science / IV. Communication / V. CORDlink
                       VI. MRIB /  VII. CMGP Homepage / VII. Brainstorming / IX. Participants
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