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CNS Division Of Computer and Network Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 4, 2020 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 4, 2020 |
| Award Number: | 1951997 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Sandip Roy
CNS Division Of Computer and Network Systems CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | July 15, 2020 |
| End Date: | June 30, 2021 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $150,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $150,000.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
1523 UNION RD RM 207 GAINESVILLE FL US 32611-1941 (352)392-3516 |
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FL US 32611-5150 |
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| NSF Program(s): | S&CC: Smart & Connected Commun |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
Florida ranks first in the nation for estimated potential residential exposure to hurricane storm surge damage. Fundamental to pre-disaster planning and post-disaster recovery activities is the availability of integrated datasets that can help communities better understand the type and quantity of affordable housing stock at risk. However, oftentimes, even when available, these datasets may be outdated, incomplete, not shared across local departmental jurisdictions, or need significant processing to become more useful for planning and recovery activities. There is an urgent need for practitioners to be able to leverage each other?s information, skills, and experience to develop forward-looking strategies to create a more resilient affordable housing system. This Planning Grant project creates a Flood Hazard Management and Practitioner Information Network for Florida Coastal Communities to establish the foundation for future pre- and post-disaster management as well as strengthening technological and social/planning issues related to coastal communities. This project will focus on co-producing a more comprehensive description of the problem and the challenges to creating more resilient affordable housing, as well as co-producing a process to develop solutions that are both effective and useful to the community. To seed this new Practitioner Information Network, University of Florida will collaborate with a county and a Regional Planning Council in Florida which can be scaled across broader regions.
This Smart & Connected Communities Planning Grant project creates a Flood Hazard Management and Practitioner Information Network for Florida Coastal Communities to establish the foundation for future pre- and post-disaster management as well as strengthening technological and social/planning issues related to coastal communities. This project answers integrative research challenges under three Research Trusts: (1) Data and Information: Creating a Neighborhood Flood Hazard typologies; (2) Increasing Information Access - Smart and Connected Information Infrastructure; and (3) Connecting Communities - Flood Hazard Management and Practitioner Information Network. Among others, this project develops and tests novel scalable methods to seamlessly acquire, validate, and transfer data related to three pilot communities in a county?s residential structures? Lowest Floor Elevation and other pertinent characteristics that determines flood hazard to a Housing Information System. Scalable methods include image-based processing via publicly available street views and data gathered via crowd source. Through two community-based participatory workshops, this project co-produces a more comprehensive description of the problem and the challenges to creating more resilient affordable housing as well as a process to develop solutions that are both effective and useful to the community.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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Background. Housing is the critical link in building community resilience at the nexus of personal wellbeing, public health, social equity, and economic stability. However, with accelerating sea level rise and the potential for more intense storm events, housing stock all along the U.S. coast is at risk. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the state of Florida. As estimated by CoreLogic, Florida ranks first in the nation for potential residential storm surge damage (2019). Further, coastal flood hazards disproportionately impact socio-economically vulnerable populations, such as those living in assisted or low-income affordable housing (e.g., low-income, persons of color, elderly, handicapped, and children).
Pre-disaster mitigation, post-disaster recovery, and resiliency planning are formidable challenges for many communities, and several central issues increase these challenges including the 1) availability of needed local data and information, 2) mechanisms to access, share, and utilize existing data effectively, and 3) networks of community planners and practitioners to connect the often siloed departments working in different facets of community planning, floodplain management, hazard mitigation, comprehensive planning, and housing program management.
Project Goals. To respond to these challenges, the project was structured around three main goals:
- Goal 1: Developing Data + Information: Creating Neighborhood Flood Hazard Typologies. We want to develop needed data and information by using, among other tools, drone-based thermal infrared sensing (TIS) technologies to determine building?s lowest floor elevations (LFEs) and other pertinent building characteristics that can inform flood vulnerability and mitigation options. Effectively
- Goal 2: Increasing Information Access: Smart and Connected Information Infrastructure. Working with the network of practitioners, we will develop the framework for a Housing Information System (HIS) that integrates affordable housing data from various relevant local, state, and federal sources, as well as enables more efficient data sharing.
- Goal 3: Connecting Communities: Flood Hazard and Affordable Housing Practitioner Information Network (FH+AH PIN). We will catalyze a community of practice that can support knowledge exchange between traditionally disconnected professional domains (specifically, floodplain management/hazard mitigation and affordable housing), in order to solve existing data gaps and address the shared challenges of how to increase community resilience.
Project Results.
- Goal 1: Developing Data + Information. Results for the first goal include: 1) collection of LFE data for case study areas (University of Florida campus and several neighborhoods in Oldsmar, FL); and 2) refined methodology for deriving LFEs from TIR imagery.
- Goal 2: Increasing Information Access. Results for the second goal include: 1) creating a web scraper program to collect ECs; 2) developing an optical character (OCR) program to extract LFEs with a text detection and high accuracy; and 3) developing a framework for database design, visualization, and query.
- Goal 3: Connecting Communities: Flood Hazard + Affordable Housing Practitioner Information Network (FH+AH PIN). Results for the third goal include: 1) catalyzing a network of practitioners through Community Consultations and two Practitioner Workshops; and 2) developing a web platform for future data and information exchange.
Broader Impacts. Desire for impact on society outside of the academic world is one of the driving forces for the NSF S&CC research project. The impacts of flood hazards, especially on more vulnerable communities, across the state is significant. Out of the top 15 U.S. cities, Tampa Bay ranks third for single-family risk and fifth for multifamily housing at risk of coastal storm surge with an associated cost of $83.42 and $3.3 billion, respectively (Insurance Information Institute, 2020, CoreLogic, 2020). More than 50% of the affordable multifamily units within the Tampa Bay region are exposed to hazards (Shimberg Center, 2019). Therefore, it is critical for Tampa Bay (and other areas) to proactively plan for flood risk mitigation, and specifically for affordable housing. Our research aims to develop the technical tools that will better inform flood hazard exposure assessment, and to prioritizing the assessment of affordable housing communities to develop mitigation plans and better prepare and protect the most vulnerable populations.
Project Website: drf.shimberg.ufl.edu
Project Web Application: https://ufl.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9d72b19f73d4465db19520b707336d43&extent=-9309323.0279%2C3184270.5473%2C-9113644.2355%2C3286466.8542%2C102100
Last Modified: 12/07/2021
Modified by: Andrea R Galinski
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