World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 17 January 2010

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World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 17 January 2010

The following describes the expanded scope of the World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti.

Expanded Coverage

Working with various partners, we have defined a series of four new data collect areas around Port au Prince (PaP) that cover developed areas that are likely to have been severely affected by the earthquake but are located some distance from PaP and areas identified as High Priority AOIs by USGS and others that include areas of extreme geophysical interest (fault rupture and landslides).  

The flight planning approach has been to apportion the area around Port au Prince and adjacent areas into "Plans" that can be flown in 1 day or possibly less.  This will enable the flight team to execute each area as a single mission which greatly simplifies planning, processing and data management.  Depending on how well things go on a given day, if one plan is completed early, the flight team can proceed to the next priority area.

A map of the proposed flight lines for all areas including the current study area (PaP) is shown in Figure 1.  The plans are identified as:

PaP:  originally planned Port au Prince metro area (most severely impacted area)

This area is in the heart of the humanitarian disaster. While it is also part of a scheduled NOAA collect at 0.25m resolution, this collect will provide significant additional data in terms of higher resolution, spectral coverage and very high definition 3d measurements (LiDAR).

PaP North: north of original area

This area extends north of the central PaP core with numerous roads and populated areas.  Some of this is also in the NOAA coverage zone.

PaP_East: east of original area

This area extends north of the central PaP core with numerous roads and populated areas.  Some of this area is also in the NOAA coverage zone.

Leogane: area approximately 30 km west of PaP

Part of a NOAA coverage area, not as dense as PaP but still significant population.

Gap: stretch of coast line and rough terrain between PaP and Gressier

Not completely covered by NOAA, looks unpopulated but contains the fault zone, note that the fault line is indicated in red as defined by USGS provided points. Coastline area contains roads and rail lines. USGS has indicated significant interest in the fault zone to measure slip and refine ground motion maps to provide better direction to prioritize and deploy resources to the heaviest damage areas. The high resolution LiDAR will be invaluable here.

Figure 1: Flight Plans Apportioned into Five 1-Day Coverage Areas

Stuart P. D. Gill
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Disaster Risk Management
Sustainable development
Latin America & Caribbean
The World Bank
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