Ash3D Mount St. Helens May 18, 1980 Historic Eruption Scenario
Ash3d Volcanic Ash Dispersion Model results based on most the recent atmospheric model
Summary
Access to up-to-date geospatial data is critical when responding to natural hazards-related crises, such as volcanic eruptions. To address the need to reliably provide access to near real-time USGS datasets, we developed a process to allow data managers within the USGS Volcano Hazard Program to programmatically publish geospatial webservices to a cloud-based instance of GeoServer hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), using ScienceBase. To accomplish this, we developed a new process in the ScienceBase application, added new functionality to the ScienceBase Python library (sciencebasepy), and assembled a functioning Python workflow demonstrating how users can gather data from a web API and publish these data as a cloud-based ScienceBase [...]
Summary
Access to up-to-date geospatial data is critical when responding to natural hazards-related crises, such as volcanic eruptions. To address the need to reliably provide access to near real-time USGS datasets, we developed a process to allow data managers within the USGS Volcano Hazard Program to programmatically publish geospatial webservices to a cloud-based instance of GeoServer hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), using ScienceBase. To accomplish this, we developed a new process in the ScienceBase application, added new functionality to the ScienceBase Python library (sciencebasepy), and assembled a functioning Python workflow demonstrating how users can gather data from a web API and publish these data as a cloud-based ScienceBase web service via a code-based process. We envision these tools will improve the capabilities of USGS to rapidly share updated datasets with collaborators to provide necessary situational awareness during disaster responses and hazard mitigation efforts.
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Purpose
This page was created to demonstrate the capability to (1) gather data from a publicly available web API and publish it as a geospatial web service, and (2) quickly update the web service when new source data is available.
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