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Satellite imagery showing
damage from Bam, Iran
earthquake (2003)

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ImageCat participates in the "2009 Science and Technology Awareness Day (Tech Day)", a community outreach event at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles.
2 May 2009. - Designed as an outreach to the community youth in Los Angeles, the science and engineering themed event was hosted at the University of Southern California's (USC) Zumberge Hall (ZHS) of Science at USC on Saturday, May 2, 2009. The L.A. African American Engineers and Professional Employees Association, the USC Department of Earth Sciences, and Southern California Earthquake Center organized the activities. EERI So. Cal. Chapter was a major sponsor of the event. Approximately 200 local schoolchildren were treated to demonstrations of earthquake science as well as related games and competitions.
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ImageCat receives Multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study Community Recovery after Major Natural Disasters.
Long Beach, CA. - March 2009. ImageCat has been awarded a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study the recovery of communities after major natural disasters. The title of the grant is Methods for Measuring, Monitoring and Evaluating Post-Disaster Recovery. This award involves three other research institutions: The University of British Columbia (Stephanie Chang); the University of Delaware (Rachel Davidson); and the University of Memphis (Arleen Hill). Beverley Adams of ImageCat Ltd. will lead ImageCat's portion of this grant. She will be supported by John Bevington in the ImageCat Ltd. office.
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City of Inglewood deploys ImageCat's INLET™ and VIEWS™ as a part of the Great Southern California ShakeOut Exercise.
Long Beach, CA. - November 2008. As a participant in the Great Southern California ShakeOut Exercise, City of Inglewood deployed two key pieces of technology, INLET™ and VIEWS™ to assess preliminary damage and generate situational awareness for the responding agencies and the local residents for the simulated earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale.
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ImageCat Coverage of Damage to On-shore Oil Refineries and Facilities in Texas and Louisiana after Hurricane Ike
Long Beach, CA. - 21 November 2008. ImageCat's disaster reconnaissance team led by Charles Huyck has produced GIS Flood and Surge inundation maps for Hurricane Ike which made landfall over Galveston Island in Texas.
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ImageCat's Coverage of Hurricane Gustav
Long Beach, CA. - 8 September 2008. ImageCat's disaster reconnaissance team led by Charles Huyck has produced a selection of GIS Flood and Surge maps for Hurricane Gustav which made landfall near Cocodrea, Louisiana as a strong category 2 hurricane on the morning of September 1, 2008.
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Virtual Disaster Viewer: Advancing Earthquake Reconnaissance in MS Virtual Earth
ImageCat announces the launch of an online Virtual Disaster Viewer (VDV) with MS Virtual Earth, for the Sichuan China Earthquake. Incorporating damage and situation assessments by an international team of expert engineers' interpretation of satellite imagery, with GPS referenced ground photographs and videos recently collected by field teams, VDV represents a new way of generating preliminary estimates of earthquake damage, when access to the affected area is restricted.
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INLET: ImageCat's Internet-based Loss Estimation Tool
Inlet (Internet-based Loss Estimation Tool) is the first online real-time loss estimation system available to the emergency management and response community within California.
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Eguchi Named 2008 EERI Distinguished Lecturer
Ronald T. Eguchi, president and CEO of ImageCat, Inc., headquartered in Long Beach, California, is EERI’s 2008 Distinguished Lecturer. During EERI’s 60th Annual Meeting in February 2008 in New Orleans, he will present his lecture, entitled “Earthquakes, Hurricanes and other Disasters: A View from Space,” for the first time.
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ImageCat and RMS release joint research report on the 2007 U.S. Wildfire Season
ImageCat, Inc. and Risk Management Solutions (RMS) issued a joint research report Wednesday on the 2007 U.S. wildfire season. This report documents the unique way in which a new generation of advanced technologies and data fusion techniques- that proved invaluable amidst the chaos following Katrina - were employed for wildfire.
Read RMS-ImageCat joint report, The 2007 U.S. Wildfire Season: Lessons from Southern California
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ImageCat Analyzes Summer UK Floods using High Resolution Aerial and Medium Resolution Radar Imagery
Responding to the devastating summer floods in the UK, ImageCat has produced a selection of GIS Flood Maps and Aerial Images for affected areas across the UK. This comprehensive and independent information on the disaster scene provides decision support for emergency managers and the re/insurance industry, showing the extent of flood inundation and in-field conditions.
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National Science Foundation Showcases ImageCat’s Remote Sensing Disaster Research
In a special report on "Understanding Disasters" National Science Foundation has showcased ImageCat's Remote Sensing Disaster research. In two of the featured disasters, Hurricane Charley (2004) and Bam Iran Earthquake (2003), ImageCat used rapid analysis techniques with high resolution satellite images to assess damage to a vast number of buildings.
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ImageCat presents Advanced Technologies for Validating Multi-Hazard Urban Damage Assessments at the Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event 2007, held in Paris.
ImageCat was invited to attend the prestigious Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event 2007, held in Paris this April.
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ImageCat wins award for Seismic Risk Assessment Study of the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District
As a member of the Sandwell Engineering Team, ImageCat has won an award for seismic risk analysis of the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District (GVS&DD) system in the Soft Engineering Category.
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MCEER Releases Comprehensive Report on the Use of Remote Sensing Technologies in Detecting Damage after Hurricane Katrina
As part of the MCEER Special Report Series on Engineering and Organizational Issues Before, During and After Hurricane Katrina, MCEER has released a new volume the focuses on Advanced Damage Detection for Hurricane Katrina: Integrating Remote Sensing and VIEWS™ Field Reconnaissance.
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MIHEA: ImageCat's Mono-Image Height Extraction Algorithm
MIHEA is Imagecat’s landmark building inventory tool for urban planners and modelers from the disaster management, insurance and reinsurance sectors. From a single high-resolution satellite image, MIHEA enables the User to rapidly quantify key data about critical structures.
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MAPVIEWER™: ImageCat’s Desktop Mapping Application for Real Estate Professionals
MAPVIEWER™ is ImageCat’s premier desktop mapping software for real estate professionals to track developable land throughout Southern California along progressive stages of the entitlement process.
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