Debayan Mandal attended the 2024 I-GUIDE Vitual Poster Competition and received rising Geospatial Data Scientist Award.
His poster title is PRIME: A CYBERGIS PLATFORM FOR RESILIENCE INFERENCE MEASUREMENT
AND ENHANCEMENT. In an era of increased climatic disasters, there is an urgent need to develop reliable models and easy-to-implement tools for evaluating and improving urban resilience to climatic hazards at multiple geographical and temporal scales. Despite various domains like ecology, engineering, and social science defining resilience, the social domain is relatively subjective due to the intricate interplay of socioeconomic factors with disaster resilience. Some earlier models also suffer from being hazard- or geography-specific. Furthermore, cyberinfrastructure is increasingly utilized to develop and implement tools that can tackle large-scale, multidisciplinary societal problems.
However, there is no user-friendly, scientifically rigorous tool that can support customized resilience assessment and improvement. To address these gaps, this study has three primary objectives: 1. To develop the Customized Resilience Inference Measurement (CRIM) framework designed for multi-scale community resilience assessment and the identification of influential socioeconomic factors. 2. To implement a CyberGIS module in the CyberGISX platform that enables users to conduct disaster resilience computation and visualization using the CRIM framework. 3. To demonstrate the utility of the CyberGIS platform through a representative study that analyzes county-level community resilience to climatic hazards in the United States from 2000 to 2020.
Congratulations to Debayan, and we look forward to hearing more about the research activities and achievements from GEAR Lab! Gig'em!
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