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ImageCat, Inc. Leads NSF-Sponsored Post-hurricane Damage Mapping in Florida Port Charlotte & Punta Gorda, FL- August 2004. In the days following Hurricane Charley, an ImageCat field data collection team lead damage assessment activities in the devastated towns of Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda, FL. The effort was funded through a highly sought-after SGER (Small Grant for Exploratory Research) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a Rapid Response grant from the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center (NHRAIC), and a Field Deployment grant from the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER). Working in collaboration with the Wind Science Engineering and Research (WISE) Center at Texas Tech University, the ImageCat team deployed the VIEWS (Visualizing Impacts of Earthquakes With Satellites) system to collect perishable damage survey data. The damage characteristics for an estimated 10,000 buildings were captured using VIEWS, a notebook-based system that integrates high-resolution satellite imagery and map layers with real-time GPS readings, and operates in conjunction with a digital video recorded and camera. It can be deployed from a moving vehicle or on foot. The VIEWS damage data is now being analyzed using the ImageCat D-VRS (Desktop Virtual Reconnaissance Survey) visualization system. VIEWS and D-VRS were developed through funding from MCEER. A full report documenting field data collection activities and preliminary results is available at http://mceer.buffalo.edu/research/Charley/Charley-screen.pdf
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