It may have been designed for combat, but its new mission is helping communities recover from natural disasters.
The Battlefield Damage Assessment Tool, a technology developed by ERDC, gives first responders a rapid, data-driven view of damage, helping them allocate critical resources more efficiently after events like wildfires and hurricanes.
We go behind the scenes with the innovators who made it happen, ERDC researchers Nikki Wayant and Charlotte Ellison from the Geospatial Research Laboratory.
Topics include how the technology was first used by emergency officials following the 2023 Hawaii wildfires (3:12), how the information helps emergency management officials (6:03), and some of the key data sources the system uses to provide its assessment (7:50). We also discuss how the team’s interdisciplinary makeup enabled a better product (14:56), the tool’s future capabilities (16:53), and the team being named an Innovation of the Year in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (20:42).
Listen to the audio podcast at PowerofERDCPodcast.org/47-battlefield-damage-assessment.
