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- Title
- MCEER Response: Hurricane Gustav Reconnaissance - Damage Survey Using the VIEWS(Trade Name) System.
- File
- PB2009105544.pdf
- Author(s)
- Svekla, W.; Verrucci, E.
- Source
- Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, NY.; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., October 2008, 6 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- MCEER-08-SP08
- Abstract
- Hurricane Gustav was the third hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. It made U.S. landfall at 9:30 a.m. CDT on Monday, September 1, 2008, near Cocodrie, Louisiana, about 70 miles southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, as a Category 2 hurricane. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) estimated an 81 percent chance that Gustav would strike as a Category 3 hurricane or higher. Government officials and the public were prepared for the worst, since they had been severely affected three years earlier by Hurricane Katrina. A few hours after landfall, Gustav weakened into a Category 1 hurricane and continued to dissipate as it moved through Louisiana and into Arkansas. ImageCat, Inc., deployed to the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast on September 2 and 3, 2008, utilizing the VIEWS(Trade Name) Field Data Reconnaissance System. VIEWS(Trade Name) is a notebook-based field data collection and visualization system developed by ImageCat with financial support from MCEER. It integrates pre- and post-disaster remote sensing imagery with real-time GPS (Global Positioning System) readings and map layers, and operates in conjunction with a High-Definition Video (HDV) digital camera and digital video recorder. After first being deployed for earthquake field reconnaissance following the December 2003 Bam (Iran) earth-quake, this system has been used for damage assessment support in a number of recent disasters, including tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados and wildfires.
- Keywords
- Mississippi; Damage assessment; Louisiana; Reconnaisance; Gulf coast; NOAA; VIEWS (Trademark); Surveys; Digital imagery; Hurricane Gustav; Airborne equipment