ImageCat Launches Damage Maps and Data Products for the 2007 Hurricane Season

Long Beach, CA. – May 31, 2007: ImageCat has announced the launch of its Damage Maps and Data Products for Hurricane Response, covering the US coastline. This new set of data products will offer subscribing members timely and cost-effective access to urban and building damage information and field deployment data for use in decision support as each event unfolds. The product line will provide maps and data for situational awareness, bringing together remote sensing, GIS, ground truth and near real-time hazard data for rapid, comprehensive and independent information on the disaster scene.

Key benefits include:

• Rapid and independent estimate of area of impact: wind, flood, and surge
• Rapid and independent estimate of building damage levels regionally for wind
• Grid-based assessment (0.5km x 0.5km grid) of percent (%) of damaged buildings for wind
• Per building damage assessment using remote sensing damage scale for wind
• Catalogue of hazard and damage information expanded as datasets become available
• Overlay your own exposure data
• Near real-time hazard tracking before the storm hits
• Geographically-referenced data