Following Hurricane Florence, the StEER/RAPID team used RAPID Facility’s Applied Streetview, as well as Mavic Air and Matrice 210 drones to assess flooding and wind damage in and around Elizabethtown, North Carolina in late September.
Sean Yeung and Jake Dafni from the NHERI RAPID Facility at UW
Left to Right: Andre Barbosa, PhD, Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at OSU; Jake Dafni, PhD, Geotechnical Engineer and Operations Manager of the RAPID at UW; Sean Yeung, Instrumentation Specialist at UW; Christine Wittich, PhD, Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering Depart. at UNL; Daniel Smith, PhD, Senior Research Fellow at JCU (Australia).
Alex Grant, Research Civil Engineer with the U.S.Geological Survey, traveled to Hokkaido, Japan following the Eastern Uburi Earthquake on September 6, 2018 to compile an inventory of landslides and lateral spreads. He brought with him RAPID Facility’s Leica BLK360 Scanner and Maptek XR3 laser scanner to collect point cloud data.
Alex Grant, Research Civil Engineer with the U.S.Geological Survey
Point cloud data Alex collected from one of the landslides
Alex brought to Japan RAPID’s Maptek XR3 (shown here).
Researchers from University of Washington and Auburn University traveled to the Panhandle of Florida in early November following Hurricane Michael, which made landfall in Mexico Beach, FL on October 10th. A project funded by the National Science Foundation, its primary focus was to assess the damage done to large-scale industrial buildings. The team utilized RAPID’s extensive equipment portfolio bringing with them numerous cameras (DJI Osmo, Insta360, Canon DSLR, and Flir), DJI Phantom and Matrice 210 drones, the Leica TS16 and Maptek XR3 long-range scanner.
Aerial photograph of wind damage to a large-scale industrial building.
Jeff Berman, PhD, Operations Director of the RAPID Facility
Jake Dafni, PhD, Operations Manager of the RAPID Facility
Justin Marshall and David Roueche, Researchers and Professors at Auburn University
Director of RAPID, Joe Wartman, traveled to Indonesia as part of an NSF/GEER-funded post-earthquake reconnaissance project. The team spent time in Palu, Sulawesi with the aim of mapping and characterizing large ground failures using RAPID equipment such as, UAV’s and a Leica GNSS.
GEER supported a post earthquake and tsunami reconnaissance mission to Palu, Indonesia in November 2018.
The reconnaissance team spent time in Palu, Sulawesi, mapping and characterizing large ground failures using RAPID UAVs and GPS equipment.
RAPID’s Operations Manager, Jake Dafni, PhD, traveled to Oregon during the first week of December to collect data for mitigation efforts of the Spangler landslide located near Molino, OR. This is a collaborative project headed by Professor Mike Olsen’s team at OSU’s College of Engineering, as well as Oregon Department of Transportation. Dafni was greatly supported during this field mission by Chase Simpson, Civil Engineering Master’s student at OSU with a specialty in Geomatics.
Jake and Chase readying the Phoenix miniRanger drone lidar system.
Phoenix miniRanger drone lidar system set and ready to fly!
Alex Grant, Research Civil Engineer of the USGS, utilized RAPID’s Canon DSLR camera to inspect surface cracks and lateral spreading cracks near Anchorage, AK following the earthquake on Dec. 9th.
Slumping and lateral spreading failures near the Matanuska River in front of the Chugach Range, AK.
Extensive surface cracks due to liquefaction along the Matanuska River, AK.
RAPID shipped Grant one of its two Canon 7D Mark II DSLR cameras just days following the Anchorage earthquake.
Adrian Bender (USGS) inspecting lateral spreading cracks along the Matanuska River, AK.
