Paper Info
Title
ASTER Satellite Observations for International Disaster Management
Abstract
When lives are threatened or lost due to catastrophic disasters, and when massive financial impacts are experienced, international emergency response teams rapidly mobilize to provide urgently required support. Satellite observations of affected areas often provide essential insight into the magnitude and details of the impacts. The large cost and high complexity of developing and operating satellite flight and ground systems encourages international collaboration in acquiring imagery for such significant global events in order to speed delivery of critical information to help those affected, and optimize spectral, spatial, and temporal coverage of the areas of interest. The International Charter-Space and Major Disasters was established to enable such collaboration in sensor tasking during times of crisis and is often activated in response to calls for assistance from authorized users. Insight is provided from a U.S. perspective into sensor support for Charter activations and other disaster events through a description of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), which has been used to support emergency situations for over a decade through its expedited tasking and near real-time data delivery capabilities. Examples of successes achieved and challenges encountered in international collaboration to develop related systems and fulfill tasking requests suggest operational considerations for new missions as well as areas for future enhancements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/JPROC.2012.2191929
Proceedings of the IEEE
Keywords
Field
DocType
disasters,emergency services,geophysical catastrophes,radiometers,remote sensing,ASTER satellite observations,Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer,International Charter-Space and Major Disasters,catastrophic disasters,critical information delivery,financial impacts,image acquisition,international disaster management,near real time data delivery,spatial coverage,spectral coverage,temporal coverage,ASTER,International Charter,disaster,emergency response,natural hazards,satellite remote sensing
Aster (genus),Satellite,Environmental resource management,Computer security,Charter,Emergency management,Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer,Data delivery,Geography
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
100
10
0018-9219
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kenneth A. Duda120.72
Michael Abrams220.72