An evaluation of the role played by remote sensing technology following the World Trade Center attack

Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 159-168

  Huyck, Charles K ^a   Adams, Beverley J ^a   Kehrlein, David I ^a  

^a IMAGECAT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Disasters; Emergency management; Emergency operations; Geographic information systems (GIS); Ground zero; Remote sensing; Satellite imagery; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Terrorism; emergency response; World Trade Center (WTC)

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DISASTERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL; PLANNING; SATELLITES; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY OPERATIONS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; GROUND ZERO; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING IMAGERY (LIDAR); SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRORISM; WORLD TRADE CENTER (WTC);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 4544281556     PISSN: 16713664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02857548     Document Type: Article

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