[OSM-talk] [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 25 January 2010]

Jean-Guilhem Cailton jgc at arkemie.com
Wed Jan 27 01:38:55 GMT 2010


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Jean-Guilhem

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Sujet : 	[CrisisMappers] World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing 
Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 25 January 2010
Date : 	Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:39:26 -0500
De : 	sgill at worldbank.org
Répondre à : 	crisismappers at googlegroups.com
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*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 
<ttp://hypercube.telascience.org%22> 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 
<ttp://smal.in/haitirit_data%22>

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
---------------------------------------
Disaster Risk Management
Sustainable development
Latin America & Caribbean
The World Bank
1818 H St NW
Washington DC

+1 202-4580859
sgill at worldbank.org

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