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Disaster & Emergency Management
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Solutions for Disaster & Emergency Management |
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Leica Geosystems' solutions provide a substantial contribution to manage disasters of various types such as floods, earthquakes, etc. Their geospatial products are designed to deliver accuracy and high resolution in order to achieve valuable results that can be analysed and presented within the shortest time.
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Over two days in May 2010, the City of Nashville and much of Western Tennessee was pounded by 17 inches of rain, more than twice the rainfall ever recorded for a similar period in that area. The raging flood waters eventually left 11 residents dead and inflicted $2 billion in property damage. more
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700 people could be saved in Cao Ping after their message “SOS700” was discovered in imagery collected with a Leica ADS40 airborne digital sensor. more
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Beginning in December 2010, a series of floods affected Australia, primarily the state of Queensland, and forced the evacuations of thousands of people from their homes. Three quarters of Queensland were declared a disaster zone, leaving 35 people dead and declared 9 missing. The damage to Australia’s GDP is said to be A$ 30 billion. In order to provide situational awareness to reconstruction activities in severely flood affected communities imagery was captured by the ICE Team using the Leica ADS40 Airborne Digital Sensor. more
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On October 4, 2010, Hungary faced the worst environmental disaster in its history, when the embankment of a toxic waste reservoir failed and released a mixture of 600 to 700 thousand cubic meters of red mud and water. Lower parts of the settlements of Kolontár, Devecser and Somlóvásárhely villages were flooded. Ten people died, and another 120 people were injured. The red mud flooded 800 hectares of surrounding areas. BLOM together with Károly Róbert College, which is a Hungarian scientific research institute in remote sensing, processed the data acquired with Leica ALS LiDAR, thermal, and hyper-spectral imaging technologies in order to map the scale of damage caused by red mud leakage, and to compensate the property owner for the loss. more
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Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan in early August 2009 bringing torrential rainfalls and extensive flooding to the island. Morakot has caused severe damage to people and infrastructure, leaving 7000 people homeless, killing about 500 and damaging agriculture and property in the order of US$1.5bn. more
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