Rapid Aerial Assessment of Post Incident Damage for Enhanced Situational Awareness

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1 Rapid Aerial Assessment of Post Incident Damage for Enhanced Situational Awareness 2014 Conference on Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Sustainable Reconstruction: Science and Technology Applications to Mitigate Natural Hazards Boston, MA 8 May 2014 Presented by: Daniel Stouch Lt Col, CAP Principal Software Engineer

2 Civil Air Patrol 1941: CAP Established on Dec 1 st 1943: Transferred to War Department 1946: Incorporated as a nonprofit 1948: Volunteer USAF Auxiliary 24M miles flown on antisubmarine coastal patrols Reported 173 subs, attacked 57, and sank two Helped rescue 363 survivors from 91 distressed ships 1 of 18

3 Emergency Services Civil Air Patrol saves lives and provides assistance in communities all across the nation through our emergency services missions: Disaster Relief Humanitarian Services Search and Rescue Air Force & DoD Support 2 of 18

4 Current Aircraft Gippsland GA 8 (16) Cessna 206 (21) Cessna 182 (307) Cessna 172 (205) 3 of 18

5 Charles River Analytics Provide intelligent systems technology, software tools, and analysis services for government and private industry Apply innovative and cutting edge computational intelligence technologies to difficult problems in: Situation Assessment and Decision Aiding Sensor and Image Processing Human Systems Integration Cyber Analytics Integrate unique human capabilities with evolving computational intelligence 4 of 18

6 Technical Specialties Cognitive Systems Human Machine Interface design for autonomous systems Cognitive work analysis and task analysis Human centered system evaluation and validation Information and meta information visualization Interactive simulation for training Decision Management Systems Search and optimization Reasoning under uncertainty Data fusion for automation and decision support Situation analysis and threat assessment Sensor/resource management Course of action analysis Sensor Processing & Networking Image and video enhancement Automatic target recognition (ATR) and tracking Unmanned vehicle perception, world modeling, and navigation Sensor network coordination and trustworthiness optimization Collaboration of multiple unmanned systems 5 of 18

7 Hurricanes Irene and Sandy 726 air and 181 ground sorties for FEMA and state EMAs: Impact assessment flights VIP transport Road, power, infrastructure surveys Distressed person search ELT deactivation Emergency food distribution Aerial repeaters Shelter operations support Technical team flights (EPA, NWS, etc.) Nursing home evacuation assistance Traffic monitoring 6 of 18

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10 Priority Areas fema.maps.arcgis.com Collection Plan

11 Flight Routes Collected Imagery

12 Technical Solutions Multi-objective aircraft routing Quickly plan damage assessment flight routes to gather critical damage data following a disaster Real-time disaster imagery registration Project skewed aerial imagery onto an aligned planar basemap Event-specific damage detection Use an object detection framework to detect representative damage patterns in the imagery Web-based situational awareness interface Render the representative damage for response teams and mark locations within the context of a Google Earth-like basemap 11 of 18

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14 Aircraft #1 Aircraft #2 Combined Collection Plan

15 Coverage Latency Sensor Performance

16 Raster Search Sector Search Zamboni Search Expanding Square Search

17 Geo rectified Image Original Image

18 Displaced Boats Limited Impact (1/26 houses) Significant Impact (6/7 houses)

19 Contact Information Lt Col Daniel Stouch, CAP Principal Software Engineer Sensor Processing & Networking Division Ext CAP Northeast Region Liaison Officer to FEMA Region 1 dstouch@ner.cap.gov (617) of 18