Geotargeted Alerts and Warnings: Report of a Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps.

摘要

This report summarizes presentations made by invited speakers and other remarks by workshop participants. In keeping with the workshops purpose of exploring an emerging topic, this summary does not contain findings or recommendations. Nor, in keeping with NRC guidelines for workshop reports, does it necessarily reflect consensus views of the workshop participants or the organizing committee. The summary draws on the prepared remarks of workshop presenters, comments made by workshop participants, and the ensuing discussion. The first two chapters of this report summarize presentations and discussions on the value of geotargeted alerts and warnings (Chapter 1) and technologies and tools for geotargeted alerts and warnings (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 summarizes the research questionsreflecting gaps in our present understandingthat were identified by workshop participants during the course of the workshop. Appendix A provides the workshop agenda, and speaker biosketches are provided in Appendix B. Appendix C provides biosketches of the committee members.