Peter Ng
Peter Ng specializes in the design and development of software and database management systems to support a variety of multi-disciplinary science programs.
Biography
Peter Ng received a B.S. in Computer Science in 1990 and a M.B.A. in Telecommunications Management in 1997. Peter worked for the Department of Army from 1982 to 1992 as an operations research analyst and with the Department of Navy from 1992 to 1994 serving as a lead database administrator. Peter began his career with the USGS, Western Geographic Science Center, Menlo Park, in 1994 when it was formerly known as the Western Mapping Center where his responsibilities included the development of database management systems and software applications to support the Digitial Orthphoto Quadrangle (DOQ) program. Peter's current responsibilities include the design and development of software decision support tools and applications and database management systems to support a variety of natural hazard science programs.
Science and Products
CDI Risk Map
The Community for Data Integration (CDI) Risk Map Project is developing modular tools and services to benefit a wide group of scientists and managers that deal with various aspects of risk research and planning. Risk is the potential that exposure to a hazard will lead to a negative consequence to an asset such as human or natural resources. This project builds upon a Department of the...
Coastal Change
The continued devastation from recent hurricanes and tropical storms demonstrates the vulnerability of coastal communities to coastal-change hazards. Changes in sea level and storm-wave intensity are changing the areas that are prone to erosion and storm-related flooding. The Hazards Vulnerability Team has worked with USGS coastal researchers and partners to improve our understanding of...
Hazard Exposure Reporting and Analytics (HERA)
The Hazard Exposure Reporting and Analytics (HERA) application was developed to provide users with insight on potential population, economic, land cover, and infrastructure vulnerability resulting a hazard. Interactive maps and graphics allow users to examine hazard exposure for individual communities and multiple communities and changes in hazard exposure.
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Assessing hazards and risks at the Department of the Interior—A workshop report
On February 27–28, 2018, the U.S. Geological Survey and Department of the Interior (DOI) Office of Emergency Management (OEM) hosted a workshop to gather input from DOI subject matter experts (SMEs), resource managers, facility managers, emergency managers, and law enforcement personnel. Workshop goals were to (1) determine how DOI Bureaus and...
Wood, Nathan; Pennaz, Alice; Ludwig, Kristin; Jones, Jeanne; Henry, Kevin; Sherba, Jason; Ng, Peter; Marineau, Jason; Juskie, John
PRISM software—Processing and review interface for strong-motion data
Rapidly available and accurate ground-motion acceleration time series (seismic recordings) and derived data products are essential to quickly providing scientific and engineering analysis and advice after an earthquake. To meet this need, the U.S. Geological Survey National Strong Motion Project has developed a software package called PRISM (...
Jones, Jeanne M.; Kalkan, Erol; Stephens, Christopher D.; Ng, Peter
HERA: A dynamic web application for visualizing community exposure to flood hazards based on storm and sea level rise scenarios
The Hazard Exposure Reporting and Analytics (HERA) dynamic web application was created to provide a platform that makes research on community exposure to coastal-flooding hazards influenced by sea level rise accessible to planners, decision makers, and the public in a manner that is both easy to use and easily accessible. HERA allows users to (a)...
Jones, Jeanne M.; Henry, Kevin; Wood, Nathan J.; Ng, Peter; Jamieson, Matthew PRISM Software: Processing and Review Interface for Strong‐Motion Data
A continually increasing number of high‐quality digital strong‐motion records from stations of the National Strong Motion Project (NSMP) of the U.S. Geological Survey, as well as data from regional seismic networks within the United States, calls for automated processing of strong‐motion records with human review limited to selected significant or...
Jones, Jeanne M.; Kalkan, Erol; Stephens, Christopher D.; Ng, Peter Community exposure in California to coastal flooding hazards enhanced by climate change, reference year 2010
The data set contains information on potential population, economic, land cover, and infrastructure flooding exposure for San Francisco Bay and coastal communities of the state of California, USA. The type of information includes U.S. Census data on the number and types of residents, InfoGroup data on numbers and types of employees, county parcel...
Jones, Jeanne M.; Wood, Nathan J.; Ng, Peter; Henry, Kevin; Jones, J.L.; Peters, Jeff; Jamieson, Matthew
The Pedestrian Evacuation Analyst: geographic information systems software for modeling hazard evacuation potential
Recent disasters such as the 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake and tsunami; the 2013 Colorado floods; and the 2014 Oso, Washington, mudslide have raised awareness of catastrophic, sudden-onset hazards that arrive within minutes of the events that trigger them, such as local earthquakes or landslides. Due to the limited amount of time between...
Jones, Jeanne M.; Ng, Peter; Wood, Nathan J.
Geographic Information System Software to Enhance Field-Data Collection and Management of Land Cover Trends Information
Wood, Nathan; Sleeter, Benjamin; Ng, Peter
PRISM software: Processing and Review Interface for Strong Motion Data
PRISM is designed to be used for automatically processing raw strong-motion acceleration time series to produce compatible acceleration, velocity and displacement time series, acceleration, velocity and displacement response spectra, Fourier amplitude spectra, and standard earthquake-engineering intensity measures.