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NSF Award Number: CMMI 1611820

About the NSF NHERI RAPID Facility

Scott B. Miles

Human Centered Design & Eng. University of Washington EERI WA Recon Workshop

17 April 2018, Arlington, Virginia

RAPID Facility Team

2 Jeffrey Berman (UW), Site Operation Director Ann Bostrom (UW), Social Science Specialist Jake Dafni (UW), Site Operations Manager Kurtis Gurley (UF), Wind Hazards Specialist Jennifer Irish (VT), Coast Hazards Specialist Laura Lowes (UW), Structural Engineering Specialist Scott Miles (UW), Social Science Specialist Michael Olsen (OSU), Technical Director Troy Tanner (UW-APL), IT and Data Director Joseph Wartman (UW), Director

RAPID Facility Timeline

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Year 1

Community Input and Resource Requirement Development

Year 2

Acquisition, Commissioning and Training

Years 3-5

User Service, Field Operations, Continued Training

September 2016-September 2017

• Developing facility headquarters
• Hiring staff (site operations, IT,

administrative)

• Workshop
• Science plan revision
• Specification development
• Trial equipment deployment and

testing

• NHERI summer institute
• Coordination with DesignSafe
• Facility operating documents
• Outreach via conference

presentations

• Mobile app development
• Citizen science app development and

workshop September 2017-September 2018

• Procurement and commissioning
• Staff training
• Facility operating plan and site users

manual

• User training workshops (4)
• REU program
• IT cyber security
• RApp development and testing
• Fiscal operating plan
• Proposal support

September 2018 and beyond

• Supporting field missions and data

use/reuse

• Training
• Maintenance

RAPID Facility Mission and Values

 The RAPID facility provides investigators with the

equipment, software, and support services needed to collect, process, and analyze perishable data from natural hazard events. The facility supports natural hazard and disaster researchers through training and educational activities, field deployment services, and facilitating engagement between scientists, engineers, stakeholders, and the public.

 We promote reconnaissance-based science, shared

resources, open data, interdisciplinary research, community engagement, and innovation to reduce the adverse impacts of natural hazards.

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RAPID Facility Strategic Activities

To achieve its mission, the RAPID facility engages in the following strategic activities.

 Acquiring, maintaining, and operating state-of-the-art data collection

equipment

 Developing and supporting mobile applications to support

interdisciplinary field reconnaissance

 Providing advisory services and basic logistics support for research

investigations

 Facilitating the systematic archiving, processing and visualization of

acquired data in DesignSafe-CI

 Training a broad user base through workshops and other activities  Engaging the public through citizen science, as well as through

community outreach and education

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The RAPID’s Roles

 Maintain and calibrate equipment for you to use  Provide staff assistance for use when necessary  Assist with proposal preparation:

• Advice
• Integration with science plan
• Provide budget information for RAPID equipment and staff

 Logistical support:

• Arrange and assist with equipment delivery
• RApp (RAPID App) to help with team organization/coordination

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Outside our scope:

• Assembling teams
• Coordinating reconnaissance missions
• Setting the scientific objectives for reconnaissance missions
• Providing funding for reconnaissance

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RAPID Facility Instrumentation and Data Collection Offerings

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Earthquake example illustrating links between strategic approaches, instrumentation, and data collection products

RAPID Facility Instrumentation and Data Collection Offerings

EQUIPMENT CATEGORY DEPLOYING EQUIPMENT TYPES OF MEASUREMENT / USAGE# OF UNITS

Computing

iPad Pro 10.5 with accessories:

• Apple Pencil
• ZAGG Rugged Messenger

Case/Keyboard

• Tripod
• External Battery
• 256GB Wireless Flash Drive
• HD Microphone

Equipped with RAPID App allowing users to identify, capture, aggregate, organize, store, and manage social science, engineering, and geoscience reconnaissance data in the form of typed or handwritten notes, photographs, audio and video recordings, map vectors, questionairres, and 3D point

• clouds. Data will be seamlessly

integrated with DesignSafe for archiving.

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Field Laptop

Data collection, processing, and communication with other field equipment

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1TB Backup Device

Data storage and backup during reconnaissance work

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Laser Scanning (lidar)

Leica BLK360

Short range (< 60 meters) lidar scanning for collection of 3D point cloud data

3

Maptek I-Site XR3

Extra long range (< 2,400 meters) lidar scanning for collection of 3D point cloud data

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Maptek I-Site LR3

Long range (< 1,200 meters) lidar scanning for collection of 3D point cloud data

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User Training Workshop 8

RAPID Facility Instrumentation and Data Collection Offerings

Surveying

Leica Nova TS16I

Surveying total station with integrated camera for collection of spatial data (range of 3,500 meters with prism; 1,000 meters on any surface)

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Leica LS15

Surveying digital level with integrated camera for collection of spatial data (range of 110 meters)

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Leica GS18T

Self-learning GNSS with IMU for collection of spatial data and location information

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Heavy Duty Tripod

Can be used with lidar scanners, total station, digital level, or GNSS units

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Medium Duty Tripod

Can be used with lidar scanners, total station, digital level, or GNSS units

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Structure Sensor

Small scanner that attaches to iPads for collection of spatial data on the scale of a room or for a specific object

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Thermometer/ Barometer/ Digital Compass/ Humidity Sensor

Calibration information for survey data collection (also includes wind speed) - more accurate version

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Thermometer/ Barometer/ Digital Compass/ Humidity Sensor

Calibration information for survey data collection - less accurate version

5 User Training Workshop 9

RAPID Facility Instrumentation and Data Collection Offerings

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)

DJI Mavic

Small copter drone (napsack size) for imagery and damage assessment

2 DJI Phantom 4 Pro+

Small copter drone (backpack size) for imagery, damage assessment, and SfM data collection

1 DJI Inspire2 with X4S Camera

Medium-sized copter drone for imagery, damage assessment, and SfM data collection

1 DJI Matrice 200 with X4S Camera

Medium-sized, weather-proof copter drone for imagery, damage assessment, and SfM data collection

1 DJI Matrice 210RTK with X4S Camera

Medium-sized, weather-proof copter drone for imagery, damage assessment, and SfM data collection

1 Skyshot Hybrid HeliKite

Tethered balloon for imagery and damage assessment in drone restricted areas

1 Parrot Disco Adventurer

Small fixed-wing drone (napsack size) for imagery, damage assessment, and training

1 MiniRanger

Large copter drone with lidar scanner for imagery, damage assessment, and collection of 3D point cloud data

1 User Training Workshop 10

RAPID Facility Instrumentation and Data Collection Offerings

Imaging

Canon 7D Mark II with fixed and zoom lense

Imagery and SfM data collection

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GigaPan Epic Pro V with tripod

Imagery and SfM data collection

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DJI Osmo 3-axis Gimbal and 4K Camera

Imagery in motion

3

Samsung Gear 360 Camera

360 degree imagery

3

Applied Streetview

360 degree imagery while driving - create Google streetview imagery

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Flir C3 Thermal Camera

Thermal imaging and damage assessment

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SfM Preprinted Targets

Used with surveying and imaging equipment as reference markers

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Site Characterization

Seismometers

Ground motion data, horizontal-to- vertical ratios for fundamental frequency analysis

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ATOM Wireless Seismic System (MASW)

Ground motion data, shear wave velocity structure using MASW

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Ground Investigation

Hand Operated Dynamic Cone Penetrometer System

In situ soil density, strength, stiffness, and penetration rates for engineering characterization

1

Geotester Pocket Penetrometer

In situ soil strength for engineering characterization

2

Digi-Schmidt 2000

In situ compressive strength of rock or concrete

2

AMS 3-1/4-inch Basic Soil Sampling Kit (Hand Augers)

Soil collection for engineering characterization through field or lab tests (hand auger kit)

1 User Training Workshop 11

RAPID Facility Instrumentation and Data Collection Offerings

Coastal

Z-Boat 1800 with Single Beam Echo Sounder

Bathymetric spatial data, underwater imagery, and damage assessment

1

ULB 350/37 Underwater Acoustic Beacon

Instrument location/recovery for

• ffshore deployment

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DPR-275 Diver Pinger- Receiver

Instrument location/recovery for

• ffshore deployment

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TruBlue 255 Water Level Gauge

Water level and storm surge measurements

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Social Science

Emotiv 14-Channel EEG Headset

Measure electrical brain activity for human interaction experiments5

Emotiv 5-Channel EEG Headset

Measure electrical brain activity for human interaction experiments1

Miscellaneous

Goal Zero Yeti 150 Battery Power supply/charging of

equipment

2

Goal Zero Yeti 400 Battery Power supply/charging of

equipment

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Pelican Case

Transportation and storage of equipment

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Power Inverter

Power supply/charging of equipment

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Walkie Talkies

Field personnel communication

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User Training Workshop 12

Who can use the RAPID? (you can!)

 Open to anyone:

• Academics, government agencies, private industry, etc.
• Different rates for NSF vs. non-NSF (RAPID equipment is subsidized

by NSF)

• Different priority for equipment requests
• We aim to accommodate all requests

 NSF Grants:

• RAPID equipment can be requested for any NSF research
• Reconnaissance possibilities:
• RAPID grants
• NSF supported reconnaissance organizations (GEER

http://www.geerassociation.org/ , ISEER (https://hazards.colorado.edu/news/center-news/102)

• Other NSF proposals

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User Training

 User training:

• Recommended but not required
• 1-Day overview workshops
• Wind-focused training, Miami, May 17-18
• Earthquake-focused training, Los Angeles, June 25
• Geotech-focused training, San Francisco, September 17
• 4-Day intensive hands-on workshops, Seattle
• Creates cadre of RAPID equipment experts
• List of participants and expertise will be maintained on

https://rapid.designsafe-ci.org/

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Where can the RAPID Equipment be Deployed?

 Locations following natural hazards:

• Priorities are wind events, earthquakes, and tsunamis
• Both immediate response and recovery monitoring

possible, as are "pre-event" missions  To supplement instrumentation at large-scale

experimental facilities

• Priorities are tests at other NHERI facilities

 Focus on short term deployments:

• Longer term deployments possible but we need to talk
• Deployments more than two weeks will require a user

agreement to ensure equipment can be returned for high priority use if it is needed

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How to Request RAPID Equipment?

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Go to the RAPID website at https://rapid.designsafe-ci.org/

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Determine the desired equipment from the equipment portfolio at https://rapid.designsafe-ci.org/equipment- portfolio/

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Check that it is available for the dates you want

• New page coming by June showing deployment of RAPID equipment in

a calendar format 4.

Complete the preliminary equipment request form at https://rapid.designsafe-ci.org/

• Button coming to our main page soon

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Wait for us to contact you (less than 24 hours)

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Work through scheduling, logistics, and rates with us

• Note that the NHERI NCO will assist with scheduling

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RAPID Priorities for Equipment Requests

User Data Collection Activity Near-Term Response to a Priority Natural Hazard1 Recovery Phase for a Priority Natural Hazard1 Experiments at NHERI Facilities Other Natural Hazards Other Applications NSF Supported 1 2 2 3 3 Non –NSF Federal Agency 4 5 5 5 5 Other 5 6 6 6 6 17

1 Priority Natural Hazards: Hurricanes, Tornados, Other Windstorms, Storm Surge, Earthquakes,

Tsunamis, and Landslides

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The RAPID will make every effort to accommodate all requests

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When we can’t, this table sets our priorities

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We have and continue to establish MOU’s with other organizations that have similar equipment to help handle intensive drawdowns

Equipment Delivery

 The RAPID will organize the shipping of equipment

• It may meet you in the field
• You may retrieve from the UW
• Our staff may meet you with it
• You may receive a hand-off from another reconnaissance team

 You will be responsible for some of the delivery costs  The site user manual (coming to the RAPID website) will

have detailed requirements

 The RAPID will help with import/export controls

• Instrument specific
• Limitations on certain countries

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User Agreements and Insurance

 Users are required to sign a user agreement:

• Safe conduct
• Read user manual
• For equipment operated by you:
• Transfer of liability to you (your agency and/or university)
• Agreement to replace if lost or damaged in your care

 Insurance:

• RAPID’s insurance will cover:
• Use by our staff
• Equipment during delivery
• User’s need to:
• Ensure your agency will cover liability and damage/loss when under your

use

• Most universities have general policies that will cover your use of our

equipment

• You may have to pay for additional coverage depending on the equipment

(Z-boat and UAVs)

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Data Processing

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Included for all NSF users at no cost:

• Registration of lidar data
• Upload of raw (and registered) data to

DesignSafe

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RAPID HQ at UW has:

• High speed processing computers
• 3D CAVE for visualization and inspection
• f data sets

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Additional processing options (point cloud development from lidar and/or images):

• You or your students and associates

come to RAPID HQ, or borrow a high- power laptop computer and work at your location

• Work within the DesignSafe cloud

environment

• Ask us to process

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NSF Award Number: CMMI 1611820

https://rapid.designsafe-ci.org/

Scott B. Miles

Human Centered Design & Eng. University of Washington EERI WA Recon Workshop

17 April 2018, Arlington, Virginia