[OSM-talk] forward: [CrisisMappers] World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 19 January 2010

Raphaël Jacquot sxpert at sxpert.org
Wed Jan 20 12:29:54 GMT 2010


World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐
Status Report ‐ 19 January 2010 

Preparations for the Haiti operations are well underway. The RIT Haiti
Response Team has been assembled and is working on assigned tasks. 

The RIT aircraft is en route to the Bahamas for the first night. On
Wednesday morning it will depart for Turks and Caicos Islands and refuel
there. From there, it will proceed to the Port‐au‐Prince target area and
begin image acquisition. 

Data will be transferred to a server at RIT for processing overnight and
delivery to UB the next morning, approximately 12 hours after the
aircraft landing. 

Updated Schedule 

Wed 1/20/10 

0800 Aircraft departs Bahamas for Turks and Caicos 

1000 Aircraft lands at Turks and Caicos for fuel 

1200 Aircraft begins first data collect over PaP 

1900 Aircraft returns to BQN in Puerto Rico 

2000 Flight crew rest; graduate student transfers data to Rochester via
internet 

Thurs ‐ Sunday 

0600 Aircraft departs BQN for Haiti mission 

1200 Aircraft lands at Gregorio Luperon Int Airport (MDPP) Puerto Plata,
Dominican Republic for fuel 

1300 Aircraft departs for Haiti mission 

1900 Aircraft returns to BQN in Puerto Rico 

2000 Flight crew rest; graduate student transfers data to Rochester via
internet 

Monday 1/22/10 

0600 Aircraft departs BQN for Rochester NY 

1800 Aircraft arrives Rochester NY

Expected products: 

Below is a brief description of the products that will be delivered.
More detail will be provided in future updates.

a) Geo‐rectified (easily ingested in map‐based software) and ortho‐
rectified (corrected for relief impacts) imagery + LiDAR digital
elevation model (topography) and top‐surface model (building/vegetation
heights) ‐ all in raster/grid formats for dissemination through Yahoo!
and Google Earth. These data will be useful to responders and
interpreters (damage assessment, building heights, etc.) and will map to
real‐world coordinates for immediate in‐field use. Data will also be
hosted at University at Buffalo (UB) and as back‐up, at the Rochester
Institute of Technology (RIT). In addition, two sets of damage maps will
be prepared by the ImageCat team. These maps shall be used to quantify
the amount of damage to different types of building occupancies and
eventually, be useful for the reconstruction effort. 

b) Value‐added products: By this we mean interpreted geospatial products
that extend beyond data, e.g., land use classifications, building damage
classifications, thermal anomaly detection, building height extraction,
vegetation extraction, to name a few. These are products that will be
developed by researchers at RIT, UB, Purdue, and University of Texas and
others pro bono. They are intended to aid the recovery effort, but with
the caveat that these products are not validated or field‐verified. They
will be properly documented and will include meta‐data, thereby allowing
users to assess their usefulness for any particular purpose. An example
might be where different size cavities in buildings might lead to
different thermal responses.

[For back reports please contact Stuart Gill: sgill at worldbank.org]

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

sgill at worldbank.org








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