Research — Security and CIP

Research Agenda

Coordination, Cooperation and Support Program

1. Prototype RS/GIS applications for disaster management.
2. Expose the Transportation, Disaster Management and First Responder communities to RS/GIS technology and techniques common to all three groups.
3. Develop information use scenarios, including roles, responsibilities and information flows, incorporating the role of new technologies, e.g. GPS, wireless communication devices.
4. Develop cost and benefit models, and demonstration projects in cooperation with high profile jurisdictions

Basic and Applied Research Program

1. Develop a theoretical framework linking disaster type with specific information needs and RS data sources encompassing the Disaster Management Functional Cycle (i.e., planning, response, recovery and mitigation).
2. Develop a spatial framework, a systematic methodology and statistical measures for analysis of risk and vulnerability of the CTI.
3. Develop methods and standards for communicating and visualizing risk and vulnerability of the CTI.
4. Develop a spatial framework, a systematic methodology and statistical measures for the determination of disaster consequences.
5. Develop change detection methods and tracking mechanisms for specific disaster types (e.g., terrorist attack).
6. Develop RS/GIS based models of critical infrastructure interdependencies.
7. Develop rapid deployment RS/GIS data collection technologies such as fixed tethered balloons and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to monitor rapidly changing disaster conditions (e.g., spatial extent of disaster area, toxic plumes, fire propagation, flooding, evacuations and population displacements).