Guidelines & Standards

Community-developed best practices for using remote sensing in emergency management.

Standard

SAR Data Guidelines for Post-Disaster Assessment

Standardized procedures for acquiring, processing, and interpreting Synthetic Aperture Radar data during flood, hurricane, and earthquake response.

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Workflow

Satellite Imagery Tasking Workflow

Step-by-step guide for emergency managers to request and receive commercial and government satellite imagery during active disasters.

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Best Practice

Damage Assessment with Optical Imagery

Guidelines for using high-resolution optical satellite and aerial imagery to conduct rapid building damage assessments.

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Datasets & Tools

Open data sources and software tools commonly used by the REDICOP community.

Platform

nltGIS.ai — AI-Native Spatial Intelligence

AI-powered geospatial platform for querying authoritative datasets on hazards, climate risk, population, and infrastructure.

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Dataset

NOAA Satellite Imagery Archive

Access to GOES, JPSS, and other NOAA satellite systems for weather monitoring and disaster assessment.

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Tool

Copernicus Emergency Management Service

EU's satellite-based rapid mapping service providing damage grading and situation maps within hours of a disaster.

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API

Sentinel Hub

Cloud-based platform providing access to Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 optical imagery with on-the-fly processing capabilities.

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Open Source

REDICOP GitHub Repository

Community-contributed scripts, notebooks, and tools for remote sensing analysis in disaster management contexts.

GitHub →
Dataset

USGS Earth Explorer

Access Landsat, aerial photography, and other USGS datasets for pre- and post-disaster land cover analysis.

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Publications & Presentations

Publication

Remote Sensing for Flood Damage Assessment: State of the Art

Comprehensive review of current methodologies, satellite systems, and AI techniques used for flood damage mapping.

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Presentation

REDICOP 2024 Year in Review

Summary of community activities, key findings, and strategic priorities discussed throughout the 2024 meeting series.

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Report

Commercial Imagery Providers Comparison 2025

Side-by-side comparison of resolution, revisit time, tasking costs, and disaster response capabilities of major providers.

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