The synergistic application of optical and radar satellite imagery improves emergency response and advance coastal monitoring from the realm of “opportunistic” to that of “strategic.” As illustrated by the Hurricane Ike example, synthetic aperture radar imaging capabilities are clearly applicable for emergency response operations, but they are also relevant to emergency environmental management. Integrated with optical monitoring, the nearly real-time availability of synthetic aperture radar provides superior consistency in status and trends monitoring and enhanced information concerning causal forces of change that are critical to coastal resource sustainability, including flooding extent, depth, and frequency.
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1 September 2009
A Case of Timely Satellite Image Acquisitions in Support of Coastal Emergency Environmental Response Management
Elijah Ramsey III,
Dirk Werle,
Zhong Lu,
Amina Rangoonwala,
Yukihiro Suzuoki
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coastal flooding and damage
Satellite optical and radar image data
strategic collections