RSWG Telecon Notes

8/29/2006

1.  Attendees

    a.  Brenda Jones --USGS EROS

    b.  John Perry - FEMA

    c.  Cindy Magnuson -- Redstone

    d.  Jeff Seehase - NGA

    e.  Lynne Dingerson -- NOAA CSC

    f.  Chris Kannan -- USGS North Carolina

    g.  Carol Giffin -- USGS Denver

    h.  Yvette Fey -- NGA

    i.  Pat O'Neill -- USGS Louisana

    j.  Steve Bullard - CDC

    k.  Bob Lease - NGA

    l.  Tom Moore - NOAA

    m.  Glenn Trainor - TEC

    n.  Lou Driber -- USGS Florida

    o.  Chris Barnard -- DHS/FEMA

    p.  Mike Lee -- USGS/DHS

    q.  Steven Light -- NOAA

    r.  Scott McAfee -- FEMA

    s.  Bruce Fowler - Redstone

    t.  Robert Wolfe -- Redstone

    u.  Rex Forney - Redstone

    v.  Jeff Sloan -- USGS Denver

    w.  Sgt Harrington -- 82^nd^ Airborne

    x.  Peter Pacquette -- NGA

    y.  Gordon Wells -- University of Texas, Austin

    z.  Bill Pichel -- NOAA

    a.  Jon Sellars -- NOAA

    b.  Ron Risty --USGS EROS

2.  Ernesto update

    a.  Scott McAfee - No requests from the state. No plans to collect
        imagery yet, but that could change. Mitigation will collect high
        water marks -- riverine and possible coastal surge. Looking at
        flooding in northeast, but not much else.

3.  UAV Follow-on

    a.  Mike Lee discussed his answers to questions for DHS on UAVs

    b.  No conops for UAVs at DHS yet -- needs to be developed

    c.  Publicly available -- no, but would be FOUO within the
        government

    d.  Bruce Fowler - Current UAVs are not encrypted, so imagery coming
        off is unclassified, distribution is controlled by agency doing
        the distribution

    e.  Not used for Katrina because of flight restrictions etc.

    f.  Will need legal review for DoD assets in CONUS

    g.  DoD assets can be used if properly tasked through the proper
        chain of command.

    h.  Need FAA permission for flying -- also at night.

    i.  NorthCom has contingency approvals (COAs -- Certificate of
        Authorization) for the predator systems. Predator is a 24 hour
        bird with day/night and radar type sensors. Satellite comms.
        This data is not classified. Imagery can be sent to processing
        center at Langley AFB, and they reroute it to a mobile receiving
        terminal to be redistributed by SATCOM. Use Trojanspirit to xmit
        over internet. Video and still frames can be used for analysis.
        Imagery is not rectified, but the army can do it. AAR -- company
        out of Fort Campbell, KY makes hardware for multicasting data
        over the internet. Seven vehicles in Alabama with the same
        capabilities.

    j.  Workshop waiting on feedback from today. Pat would like to host
        the workshop and work with a team to develop an agenda to find
        out what options UAVs provide for USAR support, etc. If
        interested in participating in the development of this agenda,
        please contact either Brenda Jones or Calvin O'Neil. US Army
        would like to participate. Need to get participation from
        support groups -- distribution, analysis, overall architechture,
        etc.

    k.  Chris Barnard -Orbit 1 is working with DHS on management and
        dissemination of video sources from UAV. This group should work
        with them as they will be leading the DHS effort with UAVs.

    l.  Discussion on experimental UAVs and how they need to be
        certified, etc.

    m.  NASA/NOAA UAVs. NOAA doesn't have the assets but are using
        contractors. NASA USF demo has been delayed to Sept 6 due to COA
        issue and it has been in the process for 4 years.

4.  Value added processing

5.  AOB

    a.  FEMA/DHS Lidar Reqts -- will be seeking specs for imagery .
        Concern about state licensing in North Carolina.

    b.  FEMA/DHS Oblique Imagery Reqts -- will be seeking specs for
        oblique aerial imagery.