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
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
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
4. TXCAP OysterFreeport_20160604_022_1199 Location: 29.293305 N, 95.546728 W Date: June 4, 2016, at 15:39:17 CDT
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
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
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
9. TXCAP Rosenberg_B_20160601_DSC_9997 Location: 29.617872 N, 95.751493 W Date: June 1, 2016, at 14:15:32 CDT
10. TXCAP FelipeOyster_20160603_DSC_1962 Location: 29.340191 N, 95.502884 W Date: June 3, 2016, at 15:50:25 CDT
13. TXCAP SabineRiverFlood_C_20160315_A25_0322 Location: 30.256361 N, 93.727624 W Date: March 15, 2016, at 12:52:47 CDT
14. TXCAP SabineRiverFlood_D_20160314_DSC_1054 Location: 30.254675 N, 93.741002 W Date: March 14, 2016, at 17:30:04 CDT
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
17. DigitalGlobe WorldView-2 March 14, 2016 at 1211 CDT Processed by the MAGIC DBRS, Center for Space Research, UT-Austin Deweyville NRG Cottonwood
18. INVOKING THE INTERNATIONAL CHARTER Texas & Louisiana Floods of 2016
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
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
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)
26. March 2016: TX & LA May/June 2016: TX August 2016: LA
27. March 2016: LA & TX for FEMA
28. © DLR e. V. 2016, Distribution Airbus DS Geo GmbH
29. © DLR e. V. 2016, Distribution Airbus DS Geo GmbH
30. May/June 2016 Activation: TX for TDEM
31. May/June 2016: TX for TDEM © ESA 2016 Sentinel 1A SAR on May 31, 2016
35. Bing Maps Aerial View of Brazos River at Sealy: Normal water levels
36. Texas Civil Air Patrol Photo: June 3, 2016
38. © DLR e. V. 2016, Distribution Airbus DS Geo GmbH
39. August 2016 Activation: LA for FEMA/LA
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
41. Pleiades © CNES 2016 - Distribution Airbus Defence and Space, all rights reserved Baton Rouge Area flooding August 19, 2016 CNES Pleiades
42. 16-m Bolivian VRSS-1 Multispectral tiles August 20, 2016 © ABAE 2016 Detail on next slide
43. 16-m Bolivian VRSS-1 Multispectral tiles August 20, 2016 © ABAE 2016
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)
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