U.S. Department of the InteriorU.S. Geological Survey

USGS Emergency Operations

• Natural Hazards Support and Monitoring• Geospatial Data Support and Acquisition

USGS Mission

USGS serves the nation by providing reliable scientific information:

• As an unbiased, multi-disciplinary science organization that focuses on biology, geography, geology, geospatial information, and water

• Is dedicated to the timely, relevant, and impartial study of the landscape, our natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten us.

Minimize loss of life and property fromnatural disasters such as:

• Landslides• Earthquakes• Volcanic Activity• Flooding• Wildfires • Biological Diseases

USGS Mission

The over arching goal of the program is

To: make relevant remote sensing and earth science data available to customers

In a way that: is fast, efficient, and easy to use

So that: deaths, injuries, property damage, economic losses, and human suffering caused by disasters are minimized

And can be measured by: timeliness of response, accuracy of response, utility of products, and customer satisfaction.

USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Emergency Operations

Coordination of Federal Geospatial Activities

Coordinate calls for geospatial activities Led by staff at USGS EROS Frequency driven by need Coordinating Federal civil requirements, data

acquisitions, information delivery in preparation for, during and after events

Identification of data, information, and services to be coordinated for use across the community

Coordination of Federal Geospatial Activities

FEMA’S executive agent for the acquisition and coordination of commercial and civil government aerial and satellite remote sensing during national disaster response operations

Coordination of Federal Geospatial Activities

International Charter Remote Sensing Data

Other sources of Remote Sensing Data

International Charter Space and Major Disasters

An International agreement among Space Agencies to support, with space-based data and information, relief efforts in the event of emergencies caused by major disasters Disaster response Multi-satellite data acquisition

Fast data turn-around – priority acquisition

Archive retrievals and spacecraft tasking Data processing at pre-determined level Space Agency contribution in image/data Space Agency initiative for value-added-data fusion

CSACSA

CanadaCanada

NOAANOAAUSGSUSGS

USAUSA

CONAECONAEArgentina

CNESCNES

FranceFrance

ISROISRO

IndiaIndia

JAXAJAXAJapan

Charter Member AgenciesCharter Member Agencies

CNSACNSAChina

BNSC/DMCBNSC/DMCUK NI TR DZUK NI TR DZ

ESAESA

EuropeEurope

International CharterMembership Resources

Radar ERS-2, RADARSAT-1, ENVISAT, ALOS PALSAR

SPOT2, SPOT4, SPOT5, IRS-1C, IRS-P6, IRS-P5, CHRIS/PROBA, LANDSAT5, LANDSAT7

Optical HR/VHR ALOS AVNIR/PRISM, BILSAT, ALSAT, NigeriaSat, UKDMC, Beijing-1, CBERS-2

Ikonos, QuickBird,Formosat, Topsat

Optical MR MERIS, POES, GOES, SAC-C

Other Remote Sensing AssetsUS Air Force EagleVision The DoD’s ONLY Deployable, Commercial Imagery

Ground Station Directly Receives and Processes Critical Imagery Data Provide image acquisition support to emergency

response community

Other Remote Sensing Assets

EPA Airborne Spectral

Photometric Environmental Collection Technology (ASPECT) is on standby for possible Emergency Support Function 10 deployment (EO/IR, multi-spectral, hyper-spectral)

Aero Commander 680

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Other Remote Sensing Assets

National Guard Bureau RC-26 Electro-Optical/

Infrared (EO/IR), Full Motion Video (FMV)2

OH-58; FMV

Department of Homeland Security; Customs and Border Protection Predator B Unmanned Aerial

System, Lynx Synthetic Aperture Radar, MX-15 Electro Optical/Infrared Detection and monitoring capability, Full Motion Video

P-3 Full Motion Video (BIG PIPE)

RC-26OH-58

CE-550 MQ-9 Predator BP-3

Other Remote Sensing Assets Civil Air Patrol

Airborne Real-Time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance System (ARCHER)

US Northern Command RC-26 flying mission for LA

Secretary of Fisheries and Wildlife

C-130 Scathe View flying mission in LA of flooded areas

OC-135, RQ-4 Global Hawk

available for assessment missions

OC-135

CAP Cessna-182

Other Remote Sensing Assets NOAA

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) scheduled for Rapid Scan Operations

The imagery collected will be made available on the internet at http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/gustav/

Citation Jet; digital cameras collects Red, Green, Blue (color) and the other collects Near Infrared (850nm) LIDAR systems

NOAA AC-690 Turbo Commander

ASTERWorld View 1

Other Remote Sensing Assets

NGA-Commercial Vendors Digital Globe World View Quickbird Ikonos

NASA Advanced Space borne

Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) satellite

AVIRIS IKHANA\ EO-1

ASTER

World View 1