Remote Sensing Institute
The Remote Sensing Institute (RSI) serves as a platform for developing and operationally implementing innovative multi-hazard techniques, strategies and products for rapidly assessing post-disaster impacts, modeling and quantifying the built environment, and monitoring recovery.
Building on ten years of research achievements, RSI offers clients a wealth of remote sensing and GIS-based capabilities and scientific expertise. Through new research contracts, RSI scientists will continue to embrace fundamental and applied research activities to develop innovative new approaches to short- and long-term disaster management. Other commercial products and services developed by MCEER researchers, and now available through RSI include: 24-48 hour post-disaster damage assessment under the PDV™ (Post-disaster Damage Verification) program; near real-time flood, surge, hurricane, earthquake and tsunami damage assessment through remote sensing-based damage scales and advanced image analysis techniques; and forensic GPS-registered damage assessment using the in-field VIEWS™ data collection and visualization system.
Resources to MCEER materials related to Remote-Sensing research include:
Research Highights
Remote Sensing Institute Receives NOAA CSC Award to Develop Community Resilience Index
MCEER’s Remote Sensing Institute (RSI) has received a $270,000 award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center (CSC) to develop and implement an integrated Community Resilience Index (CRI) for communities in the U.S. portion of the Gulf of Mexico. Professor Christian Renschler, from the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo, is the Principal Investigator and led the proposal effort on behalf of MCEER and the RSI. More...
