[Fwd: [CrisisMappers] World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 25 January 2010]
Jean-Guilhem Cailton
World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 25 January 2010
Another excellent day of imaging for the RIT sensor system. The intent today was to collect high resolution LIDAR over the fault line. After completing several lines at the western end of the fault, heavy clouds moved in. At this point the crew transitioned to the contingency plan of completing the Leogane area as shown in the Figure.
Future Flight Plans
Tomorrow, we will focus on the fault line for the USGS (red area in Figure 1). This collect will be optimized for very high resolution LiDAR (5 pts/m2) which means operating at an altitude of about 6,500 ft. This will result in a color camera resolution 30 cm or larger. However, there is little in the way of populated areas along the fault itself. We have moved our operating base to Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic which greatly enhances our ability to cover Haitian targets.
Additional targets have been assigned to cover damage areas around Jacmel, Petit Goave, Fermate and Kenscoff. These areas are shown in the colored boxes in Figure 2. These areas will require one additional day of flying (Wednesday). The aircraft and crew will then begin their return to the US Wednesday night. Complete coverage will be contingent on weather conditions.
Data Processing and availability
Data are posted for 1/21 & 1/22; data processing & QC for 1/23 is near completion. Data from 1/25, 1/26, and 1/27 will be delivered to Rochester on 1/28 when the aircraft returns.
As we explained yesterday, we are trying to disseminate the data as quickly as possible and are enormously grateful to everyone who is helping with this. Patience is still needed though. Currently we are trying to get it out through: Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, USGS, ERDAS, Virtual Disaster Viewer (VDV) at University at Buffalo, UN-SPIDER (hosted at RIT) and the very impressive http://hypercube.telascience.org site. There has been a very high amount of outgoing server traffic particularly to the USGS. It is difficult to determine the exact amount of data delivered to these participants.
The data can be easily viewed at: http://smal.in/haitirit_data
Instructions:
- Expand the "Hi Res Aerials Image" tab on the left
- Check or un-check the three aerial imagery choices under this tab - RIT's data are displayed as "Worldbank"
- Scroll around the data by "grabbing" the imagery (left-mouse click) and dragging the mouse around while keep the left mouse button pressed.
- Zoom in and out using the mouse wheel.
- You can view the various type of collects by switching the check boxes on the left
Stuart P. D. Gill
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Disaster Risk Management
Sustainable development
Latin America & Caribbean
The World Bank
1818 H St NW
Washington DC
+1 202-4580859
sg...@worldbank.org
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