Using ENVI and ArcGIS to Aid Rescue Efforts Customer Challenge Responding quickly and effectively after a disaster has occurred is paramount to reducing injuries and saving lives, preventing property loss and mitigating further damage. Today, geospatial imagery and advanced image analysis tools are used to provide timely, critical information to decision makers following manmade and natural disasters. Information from imagery has been utilized after recent natural disasters including the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina and is currently being used in Japan following the monstrous earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck in 2011. On March 11, 2011, a powerful 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit Japan unleashing a massive tsunami that crashed into Japan’s northeastern coast, r

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