Abstract

ARIA: Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis Center for Natural Hazards
Track: Imagery
Authors: Tim Stough

The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) Center for Natural Hazards aims to bring geodetic imaging capabilities to an operational level in support of local, national, and international hazard response communities. Space-based geodetic measurement techniques such as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS), and image pixel tracking have recently become critical additions to our toolset for understanding earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Analyses of these data sets are currently handcrafted following each event and are not generated rapidly and reliably enough for response to natural disasters. The ARIA Center plans to provide the infrastructure to generate imaging products in near real-time that can improve situational awareness for disaster response. We are currently in our first year of a three-year pilot program and will present simulated GIS output products in ArcGIS Desktop.