The Univ of Texas Center for Space Research and FEMA has made public some of the more 66,000 photos taken by the many CAP aircraft over the past 8 days.
http://csr08.tacc.utexas.edu/moves/public/
http://csr08.tacc.utexas.edu/moves/public/
Harvey photos
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Sounds like CAP will be flying sorties for at least the next week. Aircrews from the Kansas Wing have been going down for a week at a time. I'm slated to fly down there next week provided next week's rotation isn't cancelled.
Colorado is expecting 4 weeks of crews, one week each.
Here's the 9/5 report from CAP on the ground:
Here is an update on CAP operations in Texas from the Director of Emergency Services, Southwest Region (SWR), Lt Col Steve Robertson:
I thought I would give the CAP community an update as to our response to Hurricane Harvey. CAP has been operational on a FEMA Mission Assignment to support the response to Hurricane Harvey since 26 Aug 2017. We currently have 38 aircraft and 2 full motion video aircraft operating out of two fixed wing bases and currently have 197 CAP members deployed here. Our primary mission is image collections covering roughly 255 miles of coast line from the Corpus Christi landfall impact zone to Beaumont and Port Arthur. Our collection area goes roughly 90 miles inland covering approximately 23,000 square miles including the City of Houston and 8 major rivers. Through the Texas Air Operation Center in Austin we coordinate with a multitude of SAR and other imagery airframes to deconflict all air operations.
Image collection is assigned by the Center for Space Research (CSR) and our current battle rhythm is a first wave of 20 - 22 aircraft are airborne by 0800 and fly the targets assigned. Those aircraft land at a collection point downrange and off load their imagery to a courier aircraft. The imagery is tagged by sortie number and geographical target. Once the courier has all the first wave aircraft downloaded they fly to Austin where they are met by the CSR team who take the images for analysis and post them to the MOVES website and the FEMA HDDS. Those may be viewed here http://csr08.tacc.utexas.edu/moves/public/ or at the FEMA HDDS. Those aircraft get a crew break and refuel and are airborne by 1300 for the second wave either covering the same targets again or on to different targets. The afternoon collections are again off loaded and taken to Austin by courier aircraft. To date over 68,000 images have been provided to our state and federal partner agencies. We are embedded at the Texas Air Operations Center (AOC) and the State Operations Center (SOC). Every morning the IC team has a conference call with the CSR Director to go over any updates or changes to the planned collections and every afternoon at 1530 we are on the National Remote Sensing call with all the imagery players discussing what is needed that is not being covered or needs to be covered again. CSR combines the CAP imagery with that collected by many other platforms to provide the best possible situation awareness for our state and federal partners.
This is a very large area and still a very dynamic situation with river flooding and we expect to maintain this operational tempo for at least the next 10 days. We also respond to pop up requests such as one this afternoon from Texas Task Force 1 who needs radio repeaters carried in a High Bird for their communication as they begin the lengthy process of door to door SAR in areas that are starting to dewater.
There are no requests from the state for ground team support in any capacity so at the moment ground teams are not involved in this response.
Just two weeks ago SWR had conducted a multi-wing, multi-region exercise. Many lessons learned there have been applied to this response. This is a multi-region, multi-wing response as we have brought in aircraft, aircrews and mission staff from Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin, National Headquarters, and, of course, the Great State of Texas who has the lead for the response.
Being on the National Remote Sensing calls I am happy to report the national GIS community is very impressed with the capacity and capability CAP has demonstrated in the imagery collection mission.
I hope that gives everyone a sense of the CAP response to Hurricane Harvey and you all can be very proud of what your fellow members have and are continuing to accomplish here as one unified CAP.
Thank you for all that you do for your communities and your country,
Lt Col Steve Robertson
Director of Emergency Services, SWR
[email protected]
Here is an update on CAP operations in Texas from the Director of Emergency Services, Southwest Region (SWR), Lt Col Steve Robertson:
I thought I would give the CAP community an update as to our response to Hurricane Harvey. CAP has been operational on a FEMA Mission Assignment to support the response to Hurricane Harvey since 26 Aug 2017. We currently have 38 aircraft and 2 full motion video aircraft operating out of two fixed wing bases and currently have 197 CAP members deployed here. Our primary mission is image collections covering roughly 255 miles of coast line from the Corpus Christi landfall impact zone to Beaumont and Port Arthur. Our collection area goes roughly 90 miles inland covering approximately 23,000 square miles including the City of Houston and 8 major rivers. Through the Texas Air Operation Center in Austin we coordinate with a multitude of SAR and other imagery airframes to deconflict all air operations.
Image collection is assigned by the Center for Space Research (CSR) and our current battle rhythm is a first wave of 20 - 22 aircraft are airborne by 0800 and fly the targets assigned. Those aircraft land at a collection point downrange and off load their imagery to a courier aircraft. The imagery is tagged by sortie number and geographical target. Once the courier has all the first wave aircraft downloaded they fly to Austin where they are met by the CSR team who take the images for analysis and post them to the MOVES website and the FEMA HDDS. Those may be viewed here http://csr08.tacc.utexas.edu/moves/public/ or at the FEMA HDDS. Those aircraft get a crew break and refuel and are airborne by 1300 for the second wave either covering the same targets again or on to different targets. The afternoon collections are again off loaded and taken to Austin by courier aircraft. To date over 68,000 images have been provided to our state and federal partner agencies. We are embedded at the Texas Air Operations Center (AOC) and the State Operations Center (SOC). Every morning the IC team has a conference call with the CSR Director to go over any updates or changes to the planned collections and every afternoon at 1530 we are on the National Remote Sensing call with all the imagery players discussing what is needed that is not being covered or needs to be covered again. CSR combines the CAP imagery with that collected by many other platforms to provide the best possible situation awareness for our state and federal partners.
This is a very large area and still a very dynamic situation with river flooding and we expect to maintain this operational tempo for at least the next 10 days. We also respond to pop up requests such as one this afternoon from Texas Task Force 1 who needs radio repeaters carried in a High Bird for their communication as they begin the lengthy process of door to door SAR in areas that are starting to dewater.
There are no requests from the state for ground team support in any capacity so at the moment ground teams are not involved in this response.
Just two weeks ago SWR had conducted a multi-wing, multi-region exercise. Many lessons learned there have been applied to this response. This is a multi-region, multi-wing response as we have brought in aircraft, aircrews and mission staff from Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin, National Headquarters, and, of course, the Great State of Texas who has the lead for the response.
Being on the National Remote Sensing calls I am happy to report the national GIS community is very impressed with the capacity and capability CAP has demonstrated in the imagery collection mission.
I hope that gives everyone a sense of the CAP response to Hurricane Harvey and you all can be very proud of what your fellow members have and are continuing to accomplish here as one unified CAP.
Thank you for all that you do for your communities and your country,
Lt Col Steve Robertson
Director of Emergency Services, SWR
[email protected]