Fire and rain: earth-gazing with flying machines

Teresa Howard & Gordon Wells

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1. Fire and rain: earth-gazing with
   flying machines
   Teresa Howard & Gordon Wells
   The University of Texas at Austin
   Center for Space Research
   Texas GIS Forum, October 26, 2016
   

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2. Fire and Rain in 2016 & Flying machines
   • Too wet for major fires this year
   • Major floods of 2016:
   • March (TX & LA)
   • April (TX)
   • May/June (TX)
   • August (LA)
   • Airplanes: Texas Civil Air Patrol
   • Satellites: International Charter & US assets
   

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3. Austin, Texas: State Operations Center, June 8, 2016, at 1036 CDT
   Texas Task Force 1
   Texas Division of Emergency Management
   Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
   Texas Railroad Commission
   Texas Department of Transportation
   Texas Military Department
   Texas Department of Public Safety
   Texas A&M Forest Service
   Texas Public Utility Commission
   Texas General Land Office
   Texas Department of Criminal Justice
   Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
   Federal Emergency Management Agency
   NOAA - National Weather Service
   U.S. Geological Survey
   U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
   U.S. Department of Agriculture
   American Red Cross
   

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4. TXCAP OysterFreeport_20160604_022_1199
   Location: 29.293305 N, 95.546728 W
   Date: June 4, 2016, at 15:39:17 CDT
   

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6. Landsat 8 OLI
   May 5, 2016 at 11:50 CDT
   Processed by the MAGIC DBRS,
   Center for Space Research, UT-Austin
   Richmond
   Rosharon
   West
   Columbia
   Angleton
   Lake Jackson
   Brazoria
   Brazos River Flood
   Pre-Event
   

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7. Landsat 8 OLI
   June 6, 2016 at 11:51 CDT
   Processed by the MAGIC DBRS,
   Center for Space Research, UT-Austin
   Rosharon
   West
   Columbia
   Angleton
   Lake Jackson
   Brazoria
   Brazos River Flood
   In Progress
   Richmond
   

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8. Richmond
   Rosenberg
   Schools on FM 723
   Brazos River Flood Wave Passing through Richmond-Rosenberg on June 3, 2016
   As a general rule, the darkest areas are flooded.
   Japanese JAXA ALOS PALSAR
   Synthetic Aperture Radar Image
   Collected June 3, 2016
   Processed by the MAGIC DBRS
   UT Center for Space Research
   

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9. TXCAP Rosenberg_B_20160601_DSC_9997
   Location: 29.617872 N, 95.751493 W
   Date: June 1, 2016, at 14:15:32 CDT
   

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10. TXCAP FelipeOyster_20160603_DSC_1962
    Location: 29.340191 N, 95.502884 W
    Date: June 3, 2016, at 15:50:25 CDT
    

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13. TXCAP SabineRiverFlood_C_20160315_A25_0322
    Location: 30.256361 N, 93.727624 W
    Date: March 15, 2016, at 12:52:47 CDT
    

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14. TXCAP SabineRiverFlood_D_20160314_DSC_1054
    Location: 30.254675 N, 93.741002 W
    Date: March 14, 2016, at 17:30:04 CDT
    

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16. Texas Task Force One CIV Water Squad 5 Photo
    Location: 30.258612 N, 93.736958 W
    Date: March 17, 2016, at 10:30:30 CDT
    

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17. DigitalGlobe WorldView-2
    March 14, 2016 at 1211 CDT
    Processed by the MAGIC DBRS,
    Center for Space Research, UT-Austin
    Deweyville
    NRG Cottonwood
    

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18. INVOKING THE INTERNATIONAL
    CHARTER
    Texas & Louisiana Floods of 2016
    

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22. What is the Charter?
    The International Charter aims at providing a
    unified system of space data acquisition and
    delivery to those affected by natural or man-
    made disasters through Authorized Users.
    Since November 2000, 16 international agencies
    with space borne assets have joined the charter.
    https://www.disasterscharter.org
    

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23. International Charter Members
    Country Space Agency Active Satellites/Sensors
    European Union ESA & EUMETSAT Sentinel -1A & B, Sentinel-2A, Prova-V
    France CNES SPOT, Pleiades
    Canada CSA RADARSAT-2
    India ISRO IRS series: Oceansat,Cartosat-1,Resourcesat-
    1 and others
    USA USGS/NOAA Landsat 7 & 8, GOES & POES
    Argentina CONAE SAC-C (decommissioned)
    Japan JAXA ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 & Kibo HDTV-EF
    United Kingdom UKSA & DMCii UK DMC-2 & NigeriaSat-2
    China CNSA FY, SJ, ZY satellite series
    Germany DLR TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X
    South Korea KARI KOMPSAT-2, KOMPSAT-3, KOMPSAT-5
    Brazil INPE CBERS
    Russia ROSCOSMOS RESURS-DK1 & -P, METEOR-М1, KANOPUS-V
    Bolivia ABAE VRSS-1
    

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25. Example Charter Resources
    Optical
    High resolution:
    • Pleiades (French)
    • Geoton (Russian)
    • Kompsat 2 (Korean)
    Moderate resolution
    • DMC 2 (UK)
    • Miranda (Bolivian)
    • AWiFs (Indian)
    Radar
    • RADARSAT-2 (Canadian)
    • TerraSAR-X (German)
    • Kompsat 5 (Korean)
    • RISAT (Indian)
    • PALSAR-2 (Japanese)
    

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26. March 2016: TX & LA
    May/June 2016: TX
    August 2016: LA
    

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27. March 2016: LA & TX for FEMA
    

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28. © DLR e. V. 2016, Distribution Airbus DS Geo GmbH
    

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29. © DLR e. V. 2016, Distribution Airbus DS Geo GmbH
    

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30. May/June 2016 Activation: TX for TDEM
    

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31. May/June 2016: TX for TDEM
    © ESA 2016
    Sentinel 1A SAR on May 31, 2016
    

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35. Bing Maps Aerial View of Brazos River at Sealy:
    Normal water levels
    

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36. Texas Civil Air Patrol Photo: June 3, 2016
    

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38. © DLR e. V. 2016, Distribution Airbus DS Geo GmbH
    

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39. August 2016 Activation:
    LA for FEMA/LA
    

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40. RADARSAT-2 Data and Products
    © MACDONALD, DETTWILER AND ASSOCIATES LTD.
    2016 – All Rights Reserved
    Bayou
    Manchac
    & St.
    James
    Parish
    South of
    Baton
    Rouge &
    North of
    Mississippi
    River
    August 21,
    2016
    Analyzed
    and
    mapped at
    the USGS
    Wetlands
    and
    Aquatic
    Research
    Center in
    Lafayette,
    Louisiana
    

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41. Pleiades © CNES 2016 - Distribution Airbus Defence and Space, all rights reserved
    Baton Rouge
    Area flooding
    August 19, 2016
    CNES Pleiades
    

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42. 16-m
    Bolivian VRSS-1
    Multispectral tiles
    August 20, 2016
    © ABAE 2016
    Detail on next slide
    

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43. 16-m
    Bolivian VRSS-1
    Multispectral tiles
    August 20, 2016
    © ABAE 2016
    

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44. International Charter Benefits
    • Supplements/complements US remote
    sensing assets
    • Multiple Synthetic Aperture Radar sensors
    • Wide area moderate resolution multispectral
    sensors
    • Promise of pre- and post-event images for
    change detection (not always feasible)
    

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45. Questions?
    Contact us:
    Gordon Wells: gwells@csr.utexas.edu
    Teresa Howard: howard@csr.utexas.edu
    Center for Space Research
    The University of Texas at Austin
    

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