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Space and Time Changes in Neighborhood Recovery After a Disaster Using a Spatial Video Acquisition System

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Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis

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This chapter uses the case of Hurricane Katrina to show how an advance in geospatial data collection initially used to improve damage assessment can also provide utility throughout other phases of the emergency management cycle. A spatial video acquisition system (SVAS), employed as a disaster assessment tool because of Katrina-related response deficiencies, is described in terms of its genesis, and its application in the ongoing recovery phase of the disaster. The SVAS is discussed conceptually as a new approach for capturing the spatially and temporally dynamic urban environments of a post-disaster neighborhood; for example, collecting data that can be used as a proxy for disaster-related health vulnerability, especially psychopathology. The ability to collect such a dynamic data set has previously been lacking in post-disaster health research.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the following colleagues who have been involved on different data collecting trips and processing: Barrett Kennedy, Farrell Jones, Chelsea Core, Felixcia J. Mendoza-Jones, J.P. Michael, John Pine and the many students of Geog 4047 – Introduction to GIS.

In addition, research contributions presented in this paper by Stratag (http://www.stratag.ie) were funded by a Strategic Research Cluster grant (07/SRC/I1168) by Science Foundation Ireland under the National Development Plan.

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Southern California, 90089-0255, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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  2. Department of Geography, California State University, 90840-1101, Long Beach, CA, USA

    Jacqueline W. Mills

  3. National Centre for Geocomputation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co.Kildare, Ireland

    Timothy McCarthy & A. Stewart Fotheringham

  4. Disaster Science and Management Program, CADGIS Research Laboratory, Louisiana State University, 70803, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    William F. Fagan

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Curtis, A.J., Mills, J.W., McCarthy, T., Fotheringham, A.S., Fagan, W.F. (2009). Space and Time Changes in Neighborhood Recovery After a Disaster Using a Spatial Video Acquisition System. In: Showalter, P., Lu, Y. (eds) Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis. Geotechnologies and the Environment, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2238-7_18

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