The U.S.'s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency usually monitors Iranian protests and North Korean missiles. It’s now helping find hurricane victims, too.
, the intelligence agency, part of the Department of Defense, is contending with new needs closer to home. Charged with mapping and analyzing the physical world, it’s turning skills sharpened in the world’s danger spots toward helping people inside U.S. borders. And within days of Ian’s landfall on the Florida coast, Robb and his team of analysts were
The deployment came after President Biden declared Hurricane Ian a major disaster on Sept. 29, giving the Federal Emergency Management Agency the power to request help from across the federal government in response to one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the United States.
The agency doesn’t use classified images for emergency situations such as Hurricane Ian, since most of the people who would need access to them don’t have security clearances, Robb said. But the analysts are still able to do powerful work with commercial, unclassified satellite images and pictures taken from small quadcopter drones, the kind with four spinning rotors, he said.
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