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environmentalmonitoring NOAA Aids Post-Sandy Response Efforts on East Coast In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which hit the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Northeast in October, NOAA focused on navigation surveys to restore maritime commerce; aerial surveys to assist in those efforts and to aid Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and local responders; and oil spill cleanup and damage assessment. NOAA's National Weather Service also kept authorities aware of changing weather conditions that could have affected recovery and response efforts. Sandy's large size, with tropical storm force winds extending nearly 500 miles from the center, led to more than 100 fatalities, large-scale fooding, wind damage and mass power outages. NOAA hydrographers and survey technicians continued to process the data collected by fve NOAA vessels since Sandy response operations began on October 30 at the Port of New York and New Jersey. Once processed, the data collected by vessels in New York, New Jersey, Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay will be available from the National Geophysical Data Center. As of early November, work continued in the Port of New York and New Jersey to clear shipping channels and terminals. NOAA's National Geodetic Survey's remote-sensing program has captured aerial photographic surveys of more than 1,649 miles of coastline to document coastal damage and impacts to navigation. FEMA has used the NOAA photos, as well as those from the Civil Air Patrol, to assess damage to some 35,000 homes as of early November. Sandy's extreme weather conditions—80 to 90 mph winds and sea levels more than 14 feet above normal—spread oil, hazardous materials and debris across waterways and industrial port areas along the Mid Atlantic. NOAA is working with the U.S. Coast Guard and affected facilities to reduce the impacts of this pollution in coastal New York and New Jersey. QINSy The modular design, user friendly user interface, comprehensive help and support of international standards and exchange formats, mean QINSy is equally well suited to less complex bathymetric surveys as it is to highly complex multi-vessel and multi-sensor offshore construction projects. NOAA's Atlantic Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA), a Web-based GIS tool, is helping emergency responders and environmental resource managers deal with Sandy's environmental impacts. US Temperature, Precipitation Near Average in October The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during October was 53.9° F, 0.3° F below the long-term average, ending a 16-month streak of above-average temperatures that began in June 2011, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center said. Hurricane Sandy brought large storm surge and high water levels to the coastal Northeast, with New Jersey, New York and Connecticut hard hit. The 13.88-foot observed water level at the Battery in New York City broke the local record set in 1960 during Hurricane Donna by more than 3 feet. The Delaware River in Philadelphia also reached a new record high water level of 10.6 feet due to heavy precipitation and storm surge. Sandy also brought blizzard conditions to the Central and Southern Appalachians, where more than a foot of Fledermaus Hydrographic Laser scanning Coastal mapping Environmental Rig moves Exploration Dredging Geological Pipe laying Rock dumping Offshore Habitat mapping Hydrographic Academic Sidescan Sonar Offshore ROV inspection Fledermaus is the industry leading interactive 4D geospatial processing and analysis tool. The intuitive user interface allows users to rapidly gain insight and extract more information from their data, that in turn promotes data processing efficiency, quality control accuracy, and data analysis completeness. Marine construction Marine Data Management Marine Data Management QINSy Qastor Fledermaus 76 st / DECEMBER 2012 The company with the solutions for your hydrogeomatics data and maritime projects www.sea-technology.com www.qps.nl For details contact: sales@qps.nl