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Download or read book Evaluation of New Sensors for Emergency Management written by Robert Bolus and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large-scale natural or technological disasters often require some level of government response to mitigate their effects. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers response actions may occur under Public Law 84-99 authorizing the Chief of Engineers to activate the Corps for emergency flood control and coastal shore protection or under P.L. 93-288 as work for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Regardless of the type of disaster, rapid image acquisition and analysis is an important initial source of information that can detail conditions over a wide area. The time interval (a few hours to a few days) during which imagery provides added value is exceptionally limited, because once ground observations are reliably available, the imagery only provides duplicate information. Therefore, a test was developed to evaluate how quickly proxy hurricane damage imagery could be acquired with an airborne sensor and orthorectified into digital products that could be posted on an FTP site for the Corps of Engineers.