DISASTER ASSESSMENT, SAFETY, AND HAZARDS

The University of New Mexico is leading the Disaster Assessment, Safety, and Hazards Consortium. The University of Utah, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and George Washington University are the other academic partners in the consortium. Product demonstration partners are AERIS, Inc., and EarthWatch, Inc. The focus of this consortium is on using remote sensing to improve planning, mitigating, and responding to hazards and disasters that threaten the transportation system. Highways, roadways, railroads, rivers, canals, ports, airports, and pipelines are all susceptible to hazards and disasters. These transportation lifelines are critical links in responding to hazards and disasters. Projects at the consortium focus on integrating remote-sensing data into the transportation and disaster information systems to enhance planning for hazards, mitigating potential problems before they happen, and responding to those that do occur. This conference presentation reviews some of the consortium projects that are under way.

• Record URL:
  http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conf/reports/remote_sensing_1.pdf
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• Authors:
  • Morain, S A
• Conference:
  • Remote Sensing for Transportation
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Date: 2000-12-4 to 2000-12-5
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 35-36

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Disaster preparedness; Disasters; Emergencies; Hazards; Planning; Remote sensing; Safety; Transportation
• Identifier Terms: AERIS, Incorporated; EarthWatch, Incorporated; George Washington University; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; University of New Mexico; University of Utah
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00822633
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jan 7 2002 12:00AM