The Information Products Laboratory for Emergency Response (IPLER) is a new initiative led by the Rochester Institute
of Technology (RIT) to develop and put into use new information products and tools derived from remote sensing data.
This effort involves technical development and outreach to the user community having the two-fold objective of
providing new information tools to enhance public safety and fostering economic development.
Specifically, this paper addresses the demonstration of the collection and delivery of geo-referenced overhead imagery to
local (county level) emergency managers in near realtime. The demonstration proved valuable to county personnel in
showing what is possible and valuable to the researchers in highlighting the very real constraints of operatives in local
government.
The demonstration consisted of four major elements; 1) a multiband imaging system incorporating 4 cameras operating
simultaneously in the visible (color), shortwave infrared, midwave infrared and long wave infrared, 2) an on-board
inertial navigation and data processing system that renders the imagery into geo-referenced coordinates, 3) a microwave
digital downlink, and 4) a data dissemination service via FTP and WMS-based browser.
In this particular exercise, we successfully collected and downloaded over 700 images and delivered them to county
servers located in their Emergency Operations Center as well as to a remote GIS van.
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