This imagery can be used to assess and measure damage to houses, open space, roads and highways, utility networks and other structures. It could also be used as a map to determine the safest routes for fire-fighting crews. The imagery is an ideal tool for fire modeling, determining vegetation moisture, calculating population density, disaster mitigation and eventually reconstruction. Because we received the imagery on the same day it was taken, we were able to place it on our web site so displaced residents could see how close the fire came to their homes. We also shared the image with fire and emergency staff so they could get a clear overview of the damage.
Image scale is important in displaying the true qualities of the imagery.
If the proper scale is not maintained integrity will be compromised and our product quality misrepresented. In print terms, this equates to every 300 dpi of hardcopy displaying 80 pixels of image data. This will maintain the softcopy scale in the hardcopy rendering. For newspaper print, every 150 dpi of hardcopy shall display 80 pixels of image data. The hardcopy scale of newspaper is allowed to change because of the drop in print quality.