Post-earthquake imaging detailed at San Diego conference

Since the Rochester Institute of Technology is located in upstate New York, the university’s imaging research for emergency response was expected to be used for wildfires, floods, or terrorist attacks. After the January 12 earthquake in Haiti killed approximately 212,000 people, displaced approximately 1.2 million survivors, and damaged or destroyed more than 30 percent of buildings in Port-Au-Prince, the RIT researchers were asked to help.

During the August 1 to 5 annual meeting of SPIE, the international optical society, David Messenger of RIT’s Center for Imaging Science presented “High-res...