Evaluation of New Sensors for Emergency Management

Abstract

Large-scale natural or technological disasters often require some level of government response to mitigate their effects. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers response actions may occur under Public Law 84-99 authorizing the Chief of Engineers to activate the Corps for emergency flood control and coastal shore protection or under P.L. 93-288 as work for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Regardless of the type of disaster, rapid image acquisition and analysis is an important initial source of information that can detail conditions over a wide area. The time interval (a few hours to a few days) during which imagery provides added value is exceptionally limited, because once ground observations are reliably available, the imagery only provides duplicate information. Therefore, a test was developed to evaluate how quickly proxy hurricane damage imagery could be acquired with an airborne sensor and orthorectified into digital products that could be posted on an FTP site for the Corps of Engineers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA406310

Entities

People

  • Andrew Bruzewicz
  • Robert Bolus

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Construction
  • Data Acquisition
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Detectors
  • Disaster Management
  • Disasters
  • Emergency Response
  • Engineers
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Information Systems
  • Remote Sensing
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Facility/Structural Engineering.