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ImageCat joins University at Buffalo Center for Multisource Information Fusion team to apply new and advanced technologies to emergencies Long Beach, CA - November 15, 2001. Late last year, ImageCat was asked to join a project team that is developing new software tools for emergency response officials. This effort - which is being performed for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research - is focused on improving emergency response by effectively fusing the many channels of data that flow after a major disaster. ImageCat is performing this work through a contract from the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER). Working with other MCEER researchers, including the University of Delaware (Disaster Research Center), ImageCat is providing "domain" expertise on the sequence of events that make up a disaster. By simulating damage to a wide range of critical facilities, including hospitals, electric power and water supply systems, the MCEER team will present the information fusion scientists with data and information that can be used to test the efficacy of different fusion techniques. The focus of these tests is to assess as quickly and accurately as possible the actual conditions of these critical system, preferably as close to near real-time as possible. The project team will be using models that are based on the effects of the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the
recent World Trade Center attacks. The overall study is a five-year effort that began in 2001. 
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