Rapid Response to Disasters & Emergencies: Data & Analytics Services

We offer timely and efficient data & analytics services to assist your rapid response to major events (e.g. natural hazards, disasters and emergencies) in Australia and overseas.

We produce a range of relevant information products with comprehensive location metrics and insights, complementary to public emergency warnings issued by government agencies (e.g. BOM, GA, SES, Fire services and EPA)

Features of rapid response information products:

  • Latest satellite imagery, maps, datasets, animations / videos

  • Available within minutes, hours or days depending upon subjects and content

  • Delivering outputs (e.g. in GeoTIFF or Shapefile format) via emails, cloud download and web services (APIs, Apps, Maps, etc.)

Target audience:

  • Emergency response decision makers | Risk managers and analysts | The news media and data journalists | The general public

We regularly post and share some of the latest analysis on social media (e.g. Twitter and LinkedIn).

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Related Projects and Examples

Over the past few years we have been actively developing projects and case studies in response to natural hazards or major events in Australia and overseas. Here we provide links to some previous projects and examples, and if you are interested in any specific info or our analytical tools and capabilities, please let us know.

Latest Earth Observation Satellite and Aerial Imagery

Hazard Footprints (e.g. bushfire burnt areas and flood inundation extent) Extracted from the Latest Earth Observation Imagery

  • Low-resolution, near real-time satellite imagery (e.g. Himawari-8/9 and GOES-16/17, spatial resolution up to 500 m and temporal resolution every 10 minutes)

  • Medium-resolution, multispectral satellite imagery (e.g. Sentine-2 and Landsat-8, spatial resolution up to 10 m and temporal resolution every 5 days)

  • High-resolution imagery and videos (including night-time views)

  • Rapid analysis of Earth observation imagery and other data sources available (e.g. multispectral, hyperspectral, SAR, LiDAR point cloud)

  • Data & Analytics Services in Response to Major Events: New Case Studies (Four Major Events during 20-26 January 2021) link

  • The March 2021 Major Flooding in Eastern NSW, Australia link

  • Major Bushfires in the 2020-21 Australian Bushfire Season: 02/2021 Bushfires in Perth Hills link | 01/2021 Bushfires in Adelaide Hills link | 12/2020 Bushfires on Fraser Island, Queensland link

  • Mapping Bushfire Hotspots in the 2019-20 Australian Bushfire Season link | link

  • Earth Observation and Location Intelligence for the News Media link

  • Rapidly Processing Sentinel-2 Imagery link

  • Monitoring Major Events with Global Earth Observation: 10+ New Examples link

  • Some Imagery Sources for the Northern California Wildfires in October 2017 link

  • Mapping the June 2016 Sherpa Fire in Santa Barbara County, California link

  • Observing the May 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire, Canada link

Approximate Hazard Footprints Modelled using Existing Data

Site- or Address-level Integrated Location Profile Reports

  • Bushfires (e.g. detected hotspots of major bushfires available every 10 minutes via APIs link)

  • Floods (riverine, coastal & flash flooding; detailed tile maps on terrain and modelled surface water flow directions available via APIs link)

  • Tropical Cyclones / Hurricanes / Typhoons

  • Storms

  • Heatwaves

  • Earthquakes

  • Volcanic Eruptions

  • Tsunamis

  • Public Health & Pandemic

  • …

Bushfire Risk Analytics with Location Profile APIs link

  • The April 2018 Bushfire in Sydney’s South-west link

  • The March 2018 Bushfire in Tathra, NSW link

Flood Risk Analytics with Location Profile APIs link

  • The March 2021 Major Flooding in Eastern NSW, Australia: Modelling Low-lying Flood-prone Areas (animation & PDF) link | Tile Maps on Terrain & Hydrology link

  • The February 2019 Flooding in West & North-West Queensland link

  • The March 2018 Major Flooding in North Queensland link

  • Estimating the Flood Extent of Major Floods in Lismore and Murwillumbah (NSW) on 31 March 2017 link

  • Visualising Low-lying Areas in Response to Major Flooding: Case Studies in Rockhampton and Bundaberg, Queensland link

Cyclone Risk Analytics with Location Profile APIs link

  • The April 2021 Tropical Cyclone Seroja, Australia link

  • The February 2019 Tropical Cyclone Oma, Australia link

  • The September 2018 Super Typhoon Mangkhut, West Pacific link

  • The September 2018 Hurricane Florence, North Atlantic link

  • The March 2017 Tropical Cyclone Debbie, Australia link

Mapping Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in NSW by Postcode and LGA link

More examples:

Australia | The U.S. | Worldwide

Others

Customised analysis of hazard, exposure, risk and other environmental / contextual factors

  • Significant use of automation and optimisation

  • End-to-end solutions from data to analysis to web delivery