RIT Haiti Response Mapping Mission January 21-27, 2010

RIT Haiti Response Mapping Mission!
January 21-27, 2010
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Rochester Institute of Technology
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Laboratory for Imaging Algorithms and Systems
Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory
World Bank
ImageCat
University at Buffalo
Kucera International
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How this all came about...
• Magnitude 7.0 hits Haiti at
4:53PM on January 12th, 2010
• Massive displacement of people
• Massive destruction to buildings
and infrastructure
• In response, World Bank wants
to fund collection of open
access, high-resolution aerial
imagery of affected area
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Why RIT?
• IPLER
• Information Products Laboratory for Emergency Response
• Asses needs of disaster management community
• Perform user-defined R&D of DM products
• Transfer developed technology and knowledge to industry
• RIT offers unique sensing capabilities • In-house built sensing system (WASP)
• Working relationship with Kucera International
• Access to LiDAR sensor
• Unclassified
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RIT WASP imaging platform
•  Wildfire Airborne Sensor Program
•  Designed and built in-house originally
for fire detection and mapping
•  Captures high-resolution visible
imagery along with 3 bands of infrared
imagery
•  At ~2000 ft
•  IR GSD = 2.5 m
•  VIS GSD = 0.13 m
•  All imagery is orthorectified on the fly
to 4m RMS
•  GPS and aircraft positioning recorded
via IMU (inertial motion unit)
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Sample WASP imaging capability
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On-board LiDAR sensing
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Response Timeline
•  January 12th: Earthquake hits
•  January 13th: RIT contacts IPLER partner ImageCat to discuss potential response
•  January 15th: ImageCat obtains funding commitment from World Bank for highresolution imagery and LiDAR collection
•  January 14th-19th: RIT puts wheels in motion with IPLER partner Kucera
International to deploy RIT WASP and LiDAR sensor to Haiti
•  ITAR export license from State Department - covers the thermal cameras and
IMU
•  Base Logistics - Puerto Rico & refuel Dominican Republic for daily Haiti
deployment
•  Data transfer - from University of Puerto Rico to RIT on daily basis
•  Data Processing - RIT team to work 24/7 once data stream in
•  Data release - Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, USGS, ERDAS, UN-SPIDER, UB
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Haiti mission area
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Port-au-Prince and Léogâne
Typical flight-line layout
4 days worth of coverage
✦ approximately 36,000 frames
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Overall coverage: 250 mi2 in 7 days
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Data Logistics
•  Data transfer: Peaked at 150GB in 40
minutes = 47 MB/s (1.1TB total)
•  Dissemination
•  Hosting data locally for download
by USGS, Yahoo!, Google,
Microsoft, and ERDAS
•  Displaying data locally in
coordination with UN-SPIDER
•  Launched LIAS RAIDER site
Downloads as of 4/20/2010
Univ. at Buffalo
2.5 TB
Univ. of California
1.4 TB
USGS
1 TB
Optech
851 GB
Google
845 GB
SAIC
529 GB
NGA
515 GB
Lockheed-Martin
324 GB
US Army
118 GB
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Haiti imagery examples
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Port-au-Prince Cathedral
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Presidential Palace
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High-resolution draped LiDAR of palace and
surrounding area
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Hotel Montana
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Port-au-Prince port area
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