Applications to Disaster Management

Check status of◦ Railroads◦ Highways / Roads◦ Bridges◦ Dams/Waterways◦ Ports and Harbors◦ Airports◦ Power Lines/Plants◦ Emergency Facilities◦ Pipelines

September 12, 2001© Space Imaging

Wildland fire planning

Mapping and Modeling Fuel Loads

Wildland Urban Interface

Mapping and modeling fuel loads with higher resolution

Final Urban Area Map - Buffered Road Overlay

Fuel and Roof Type Mapping

Wildland fire models

Fire Behavior Modeling: Outputs include time of arrival, flame length, and heat. Fuels w/Fire

Perimeters

Time of Arrival Fireline Intensity

Flame Length Rate of Spead Heat

Wildland fire

Los Alamos National

Laboratory

LOS ALAMOS FIRES, NEW MEXICO

IKONOS 4-Meter Multispectral May 2000

Burn Areas from Forest Fire

Destroyed residential units

Fire encroachment on government facilities

Fire encroachment on government facilities

Applications to Floods Support to Emergency

Response Teams: quickly identify problem areas

Utilize Multiple Image Sources◦ Yields varying scales of

information◦ Regional down to local level

25-Meter Landsat TM 1988 St. Louis, MO

1-Meter False Color ImagerySt. Louis, MO

Rail LineRail Line

10-Meter RADARSAT

1993 St. Louis, MO

Flood Water

Applications to Toxic Release

Atmospheric Dispersion Plume Modeling Can use GIS to depict predicted plume

behavior and impact Toxic Chem. 3000g 10 min.Rel.

Toxic Chem. 3000g 10 min.Rel.

Toxic Chem. 3000g 10 min.Rel.

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Application to Storm Surge Can predict

threatened areas using imagery and… ◦ GIS techniques◦ Elevation Data◦ Geologic Data

8-Meter Contour

32-Meter Contour

P A C I F I C

O C E A N

MIlagra Ridge

Pacifica

S A N P E D R O M O U N T A I N S

GIS Layers on IRS 5-Meter

Pan-Sharpened Imagery

Area at Risk of Inundation(0-32 Meters Above MSL)

Primary Evac.RouteSecondary Evac. Route

Hospital

Police Station

Fire Station

School/Evacuation Shelter

Applications to Hurricane

Output from Vegetative Vigor

Algorithm

Automated Change Detection

Derived from Pre- and Post Hurricane Andrew Landsat Imagery

Measures Change in Vegetation Vigor◦ Yellow indicates areas of

most significant negative impact on vegetation

◦ Oranges and reds indicate substantial vegetative stress