Conveners
T4.5 e-poster session: e-poster session - T4.5 - Resilience of the CTBT Monitoring Regime, including Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Ashley Davies (CTBTO Preparatory Commission, Vienna, Austria)
- Stefka Stefanova (CTBTO Preparatory Commission, Vienna, Austria)
T4.5 e-poster session: T4.5 - Resilience of the CTBT Monitoring Regime, including Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Stefka Stefanova (CTBTO Preparatory Commission, Vienna, Austria)
Description
T4.5
The station PS24, herein referred to as the "station" is a three channel broadband seismic station located in a 40 meter tunnel about 80 km west of the capital city Nairobi, inside Oldonyo Sabuk National Park.
Seismic data from the above station are transmitted directly to the IDC from the work stations via the V-sat link antenna outside the tunnel. Since commencement of operations, the...
The COVID-19 quarantine accelerated remote work (teleworking), especially in terms of operations and maintenance and the state of health (SoH) for critical systems, such as the real time data acquisition, the authentication, the energy supply and transmission. These were the main variables to monitor from home. Being connected 24 hours to Grafana from our houses was not possible, therefore we...
One of the great challenges during the pandemic crisis caused by COVID-19 was to adapt the way of working during the quarantine. Communication, organization and planning were fundamental pillars to manage the activities involving the research and analysis of the IMS data and IDC products.
One thing is certain, the tools of organization, management, communication and planning, contributed so...
The COVID-19 outbreak began to emerge in late 2019 at the Wuhan mine in China, with a dramatic increase in the number of people diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. This was until March 2020, when a few other countries started to report massive cases. In a world where people interact with each other at work and elsewhere, this resulted in a marked increase in the number of cases due to...
Daily challenges at the IDC Operation Center to address Station issues during the COVID-19 pandemic and maintain the IMS network at a high level of performance.
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the associated public health interventions undertaken to contain it have resulted in widespread and unprecedented social disruption.
Station operators are responsible for the operation of the individual...
General Dynamics Mission Systems’ (GDMS) concept of operations for US International Monitoring System (IMS) stations focuses on robust state of health and remote-control capabilities of the particulate and noble gas systems, paired with local operators to monitor the station infrastructure. However, with COVID-19 limiting travel for engineers to IMS stations, GDMS is improving our remote...
The RN11 radionuclide station is located at the Institute of Radioprotection and Dosimetry, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The country has been severely affected by the pandemic, with millions of people infected and more than 185,000 dead. The different spheres of government sought to manage the effects of this tragic event in different ways, such as instituting rules for social...
The Russian segment of the International Monitoring System includes more than 20 objects and started functioning more than 10 years ago. Currently, 97% of the stations identified by the CTBT are certified. Maintaining such an extensive network often requires complex decisions and effective planning.
For more than a year, the world community has been continuously fighting the new COVID-19...
The CTBT mandated the PTS to equip State Parties with the prerequisite capacity to monitor compliance to the Treaty. The advent of Covid-19 and its associated lockdown disrupted the capacity building activities of the PTS. To minimize the perceived disruption of training activities, the capacity building team of the CTBTO adopted an online training method. Two online NDC Waveform Training...
Jordan recorded the first cases of COVID 19 in March and did a great job at dealing with pandemic in many ways, such as having a full lockdown and partial lockdown, and switching to online working and teaching. The JO-NDC took the necessary measures to ensure the continuity of work through reducing the number of employees, creating a clean work environment (social distancing, using...
The global pandemic took the world by surprise with most countries unprepared for the consequences that came with it. With the understanding that different National Data Centres operate at different levels, it became important to determine some of the strategies that should be adopted by the Nigerian National Data Centre (NDC) and the Ghana NDC in order to ensure sustainability of activities...
A resilience of a system is a measure how the same behaves in disruptive conditions and potentially unforeseen scenarios managing the situation appropriately. The CTBT monitoring regime is built on relevant information acquisition protocol, globalized data sharing platform via IMS, GCI and IDC tools with a mechanism to investigate suspicious events, through OSI, while having a process for...
The sustainment of the IMS encompasses a global supply chain from sourcing to delivery of equipment. The supply chain is exposed to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and measures adopted by countries, resulting in border closures, restrictions in the movement of goods and other logistical constraints. Inevitably the establishment and sustainment of the IMS network is...
The analysis of infrasonic data from the I09BR station, installed in the vicinity of the city of Brasilia, Brazil, indicated a significant reduction in the level of local noise during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing us to identify other sources of signals previously masked by cultural noise. Most infrasound signals recorded at the I09BR array are originated from sources located close to the...
The National Institute for Seismic Prevention (INPRES) was able to continue providing its essential services during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent quarantine thanks to remote operations.
INPRES' primary mandate is the development of the earthquake-resistant construction regulations and its continuous updating as well as seismic monitoring.
During the period of preventive and...
The challenging situation brought about by the new corona virus (COVID-19) required radical actions from governments worldwide in an attempt to slow down the spreading of the virus until a vaccine became available. Lockdowns became a de facto practice to prevent the virus from spreading further by reducing people’s circulation. However, such practice had extremely negative effects on people’s...
Located on the island of Graciosa, Azores, the infrasound station's (IS42) operation and management (O&M) activities are carried out by two station operators, a local operator and IVAR technical staff. The operation is carried out remotely from the IVAR facilities, located on the São Miguel Island. Inspection and preventive maintenance are carried out at 15-day intervals by the local operator...
This poster will illustrate how the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Cameroon, rules that were implemented by the government to avoid the pandemic, how the population lives (working and studying) with COVID-19, protocol of Government, self-prevention solutions and statistics of the population (tested, affected, safe) after a month and to date. During the pandemic, we lost our main power...
To cope with the effects resulting from the COVID-19 crisis on normal duties and tasks for the NDC-JO, we have done our daily work from home using different technology, such as remote desktop connection, accessing IMS data and IDC product from the secure web portal using the Internet and installing NDC in a box software on personal computers. This will lead to a new idea for the NDC: NDC-HOME...
In the wake of Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya, which apparently coincided with the long rain season, KMBO seismic station experienced rampant mains power outages and/or voltage fluctuations. Rainwater dripped into the tunnel and caused short-circuiting and burning of electrical sockets. Compounded with this problem was the fact that GCI UPS and batteries were not supplying back-up power to the...
In Kazakhstan, for two months of 2020 there was an emergency rule over the whole country. For Almaty, where the KNDC is located, the urban office for coronavirus prohibited the operation of all offices, including the KNDC, movement of people and transport inside the city was limited. During 1-2 days it was necessary to re-arrange the operation of the Center, avoid the suspension of data...
Robust station design, good working relationships with local operators and remote access to station equipment are key factors that allowed Geoscience Australia (GA) to continue operating CTBTO stations in Australia and Antarctica with minimal downtime during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Travel restrictions within Australia due to the pandemic resulted in station maintenance only undertaken for...
Due to the COVID-19 crisis of 2020, most organizations had to re-adapt their working routines, permitting their employees to work remotely instead of at the office. The CTBTO was no exception, in March 2020 and again in November 2020, all CTBTO employees including waveform (SHI) and radionuclide (RN) analysts were mandated to work from home. The challenge that arose for us in IMS/NSS, was...
The Dead Sea Transform fault system (DST) is responsible for the earthquake activities in the region. Seismicity information including historical and instrumental data indicate that many destructive earthquakes occurred in and around the DST. Realtime monitoring systems around seismogenic zone are important for early detection of earthquake, seismic hazard and seismic risk assessments. Since...
Since 2004, the PTS requests, on a quarterly basis, a random sample from a certified station to be sent to an IMS-certified laboratory for re-analysis as part of its IMS Radionuclide Network QA/QC Program. The global response to contain the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020 has brought numerous unprecedented challenges in the implementation of the RN QA/QC Program. This presentation will...
Station calibration activities at IMS Seismic and T-phase IMS Stations aim at fulfilling the requirements defined in the Operational Manual for Seismological and Hydroacoustic Monitoring and the International Exchange of Seismological and Hydroacoustic Data.
The 2020 Scheduled Calibration activities have been merged in the unprecedented scenario of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The PTS Calibration...
The IDC Operations Section makes daily use of six key operation tools to oversee and manage the Operation of the IMS network and the communications between the PTS and station operators. Some tools and their features are already available to station operators through Single-Sign-On (SSO). As part of the COVID-19 resilience enhancement, new features and functionalities are under development to...
Costa Rica has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic during 2019, which has led to the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica closing its facilities since March and much of the daily work being done virtually. With Costa Rica's NDC located at UNA, the primary work has been done through phone calls, email, whatsapp and videoconferences and rarely in person. Among the work carried out...
The I35NA infrasound station located in Tsumeb, Namibia was certified in 2005. Gradual improvement in skills development through CTBTO training programs and the introduction of the operation and maintenance plans improved the general operations and understanding of the infrasound station. However, the health of the station was in for a rude awaking when a change in senior management in 2017,...
The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated how the world could shut down overnight and how adaptations need to occur immediately in order to continue the functionality of imperative operations such as those of the CTBTO. Because of the issues brought to light in the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to learn how technology can be used to mitigate the challenges highlighted during the COVID-19...
