The Department of the Interior (DOI) Strategic Sciences Group (SSG) was established in 2012 to provide the Department with a standing capacity to rapidly assemble teams of scientists to construct interdisciplinary scenarios of environmental crises affecting DOI resources, identify potential interventions to mitigate adverse impacts, and provide results as useable knowledge for decision makers. In […]
Announcing a New Global Leader in Satellite-Based Search and Rescue
McMurdo Group Launched to Accelerate Integration of Search and Rescue Technologies Into Solutions that Save Time, Costs and Lives — Proven brands Boatracs, Kannad, McMurdo and TSi combine to form industry’s first single-vendor provider of end-to-end search and rescue, maritime domain awareness solutions
Emergency Planning for School Shootings: New Guide Helps Protect Children, Offers Security
Emergency Planning for School Shootings: New Guide Helps Protect Children, Offers Security in Times of Crisis
NASA Builds GPS-Based System For Detecting Natural Disasters
Existing GPS technologies have been enhanced by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to develop new systems for California and elsewhere to provide warning of hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis and extreme weather events.Forecasters at NOAA National Weather Service offices in Oxnard and San Diego, […]
Grand Rapids, Mich., selects Exelis C4i radio dispatch console system
Grand Rapids, Mich., selects Exelis C4i radio dispatch console system for its emergency communications centers
Huge Typhoon in Philippines: the first damage assessment maps of the Philippines have been released
Huge Typhoon in Philippines: the first damage assessment maps of the Philippines have been released by the European Commission in the framework of the Copernicus Emergency Mapping Service
Photo Science Assists USGS with Colorado Disaster Recovery
Denver, CO, November 19, 2013 – Photo Science, Inc. a Quantum Spatial Company (Photo Science), has recently been awarded a major contract task order to provide the US Geological Survey (USGS) with high-resolution remote sensing data (airborne topographic LiDAR) for areas devastated by record flooding within the South Platte watershed in Colorado. The storm […]
Typhoon Haiyan Volunteer Mappers Update: CrisisMap from Heidelberg University
More than 1.000 OpenStreetMap Crisis Mapping Volunteers only one week after Typhoon Haiyan: CrisisMap from Heidelberg University shows Elements at Risk, population distribution, damaged buildings and Instagram images for Philippines
Astrium satellite images to help rescue efforts after Typhoon Haiyan
Astrium provides satellite images to help rescue efforts following Typhoon Haiyan (Philippines) The effects of Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines on November 8 2013, were photographed on 13 November 2013 by a Pléiades satellite, which had captured images of the same zone (Tacloban) on 7 March 2013. Astrium builds and operates the Pléiades high-resolution […]
FirstLook and UN crowd sourcing Damage Stricken Areas in Philippines
I’m sure most of you have also been thinking of the people of the Philippines as they recover from an incredible disaster. Such a tragic scene and a reminder of how angry Mother Nature can become – our thoughts go out to the entire population of the Philippines, to those assisting in the recovery, and […]