News and Events

• November 2007 - Eguchi Named 2008 EERI Distinguished Lecturer
  
• August 2007 - ImageCat Analyzes Summer UK Floods using High Resolution Aerial and Medium Resolution Radar Imagery
  
• July 2007 - National Science Foundation Showcases ImageCat’s Remote Sensing Disaster Research
  
• May 2007 - ImageCat Launches Damage Maps and Data Products for the 2007 Hurricane Season
  
• May 2007 - ImageCat forms REDARS(tm) Group Joint Venture with SSEC
  
• April 2007 - ImageCat presents Advanced Technologies for Validating Multi-Hazard Urban Damage Assessments at the Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event 2007, held in Paris.
  
• March 2007 - ImageCat wins award for Seismic Risk Assessment Study of the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District
  
• January 2007 - ImageCat Completes Comprehensive Seismic Evaluation of the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District System
  
• December 2006 - MCEER Releases Comprehensive Report on the Use of Remote Sensing Technologies in Detecting Damage after Hurricane Katrina
  
• November 2006 - ImageCat begins its Tenth Year as a Research Partner in the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)
  
• October 2006 - ImageCat begins its Fourth Year as a Research Institution in the NSF-Sponsored RESCUE Project
  
• August 2006 - ImageCat wins 2nd Prize in Geospatial Applications Contest
  
• November 2005 - ImageCat joins the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) team to document the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
  
• September 2005 - MCEER deploys reconnaissance team to investigate the effects of Hurricane Katrina
  
• September 2005 - ImageCat, Inc. and Risk Management Solutions, Inc. use remote sensing to map wind, storm surge, and flooding damage after Hurricane Katrina.
  
• August 2005 - National Science Foundation Team Deploys VIEWS™ for Thailand Post-tsunami Studies
  
• August 2005 - ImageCat wins 1st Prize in Worldwide Remote Sensing Contest
  
• July 2005 - ImageCat, Inc. Serves as Remote Sensing Innovation Panelist at Natural Hazards Workshop
  
• April 2005 - ImageCat unveils new European headquarters
  
• March 2005 - ImageCat awarded National Science Foundation Grant to investigate the role of coastal ecosystem degradation in tsunami damage
  
• February 2005 - ImageCat awarded the Phase II Study of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services' (OES) Data Standardization Project
  
• January 2005 - ImageCat joins multi-lateral reconnaissance team to investigate the effects of the Tsunami/Earthquake disaster in South Asia
  
• January 2005 - ImageCat uses remote sensing technology to identify impacted areas in South Asian Tsunami
  
• November 2004 - ImageCat joins EERI reconnaissance team to deploy VIEWS for the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake in Japan
  
• October 2004 - ImageCat Co-sponsors 2nd International Workshop on the Use of Remote Sensing for Post-disaster Response
• October 2004 - ImageCat, Inc. deploys VIEWS (Visualizing Impacts of Earthquakes With Satellites) system in Parkfield, CA after the September 28, 2004 Parkfield earthquake to test out rapid field reconnaissance
• September 2004 - ImageCat Presents Remote Sensing Research to White House Homeland Security Council
• September 14-17, 2004 - American Society of Non-Destructive Testing (ASNT) Conference on Structural and Material Technologies-NDE/NDT for Highways and Bridges, Buffalo, NY. Dr. Howard Chung presented a paper on the "GIS-based AMPIS System for Highway Surface Crack Inspection and Management"
• August 2004 - ImageCat, Inc. Leads NSF-Sponsored Post-hurricane Damage Mapping in Florida
• June 6, 2004 - The Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) publishes ImageCat, Inc. report: Methodologies for Post-Earthquake Building Damage Detection Using SAR and Optical Remote Sensing: Application to the August 17, 1999 Marmara, Turkey Earthquake
• June 2004 - The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES) publishes ImageCat, Inc. HAZUS Data Standardization Guidelines Report: "Data Standardization Guidelines for Loss Estimation - Populating Inventory Databases for HAZUS®99"
• January 2004 - The Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) publishes ImageCat, Inc. Bam earthquake reconnaissance report: Bam (Iran) Earthquake of December 26, 2003 - Preliminary Reconnaissance Using Remotely Sensed Data and the VIEWS (Visualizing Impacts of Earthquakes With Satellites) system
• September 2003 - ImageCat awarded a Multi-year Grant from the National Science Foundation to Improve Urban Crisis Response
• July 2003 - Caltrans awards the REDARS team a contract to study the Seismic Vulnerability of California Highways
• April 2003 - ImageCat part of a Multi-Institutional Team to Study the Cost-Effectiveness of FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Programs
• March 2003 - ImageCat awarded two contracts from the American Lifelines Alliance to develop Guidelines for Assessing the Performance of Electric Power and Oil and Natural Gas Pipeline Systems from Natural and Manmade Hazards
• January 1, 2003 - ImageCat to begin its third year as a research institution in the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research
• January 1, 2003 - ImageCat begins fourth year as a research partner in MCEER's FHWA program
• October 2002 - ImageCat presents Bridge Damage Detection Algorithms at Washington Transportation Security Workshop
• September 2002 - ImageCat releases report assessing remote sensing data use after September 11th
• July 19, 2002 - ImageCat Releases Preliminary Reconnaissance Report on the Changureh, Iran Earthquake
• January 21, 2002 - Ron Eguchi will chair a special ASTM subcommittee to standardize seismic fragility formulations for water transmission systems
• January 8, 2002 - Ron Eguchi is appointed to the Department of the Interior's Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee
• January 2, 2002 - ImageCat to begin its second year as a research institution in the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research
• January 2, 2002 - ImageCat begins third year as a research partner in MCEER's FHWA program
• December 10, 2001 - ImageCat awarded a contract by CalTech/JPL to conduct research on detecting liquefaction ground failure using satellite imagery
• November 28, 2001 - ImageCat joins MCEER team in their investigation of the World Trade Center Attacks
• November 15, 2001 - ImageCat joins University at Buffalo Center for Multisource Information Fusion team to apply new and advanced technologies to emergencies
• November 15, 2001 - ImageCat awarded OES contract to develop mitigation tool for water, sewer, and drainage systems
• September 10, 2001 - ImageCat joins the U.S. DOT/NASA National Consortium on Remote Sensing in Transportation as a Technology Applications Partner
• January 23, 2001 - ImageCat awarded National Science Foundation grant to study the Turkey and Taiwan earthquakes using remote sensing technologies
• January 17, 2001 - ImageCat awarded contract to implement HAZUS-Earthquake in South Carolina