Aerial Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security

Northstar Imaging can meet your comprehensive needs in Critical Infrastructure Protection and Planning while maintaining the highest standards of security and confidentiality. We can produce aerial images for homeland security plans, disaster preparedness, response and recovery. High quality aerial photographs are powerful and effective communication tools useful to all partners in site security.

Our service offers comprehensive oblique aerial imaging of a specific resource such as a public building, facility, plant, ect. Imaging can be produced in a 360 degree coverage every 30 degrees plus vertical for a total of 13 images. Images are very high resolution capable of resolving objects as small as 4" or 2" per pixel. This is significantly higher resolution than provided by most orthographic (vertical) surveys. A 360 degree oblique perspective provides comprehensive information on the resource that is not available in orthographic perspectives. This information is highly useful in critical infrastructure protection and planning as well as a resource in disaster preparedness, response and recovery activity. Site specific imaging assures customized coverage carefully designed to meet your planning and infrastructure requirements.

Northstar Imaging offers scheduled imagery updating on 6, 12 or 24 month cycle or as defined by the client. This assures time current imagery for all applications. Imagery can be organized in a data base to create historical reference for planning and analysis and to assure ready access for all real time applications.

Oblique aerial imaging is a valuable tool that enables public safety professionals to better understand real time situations with an easy-to-use visual tool that provides critical and relevant information to quickly and more effectively plan and respond to any given situation.

Northstar Imaging's founder served 13 years as a pilot and officer with the Air Force and the 193rd Tactical Electronic Warfare Group and maintained a top secret security clearance as a command post and plans officer.

The National Plan for Research and Development In support of Critical Infrastructure Protection defines responsibilities in agriculture, and food, water, public health, emergency services, defense, information technology, telecommunications, energy, transportation, banking, finance, chemical, postal, shipping, national monuments, dams, government facilities, commercial facilities and nuclear reactors, materials and waste.

Aerial imaging provided for critical infrastructure protection and planning is produced using a secure work flow process. At the direction of the client, digital files of site imaging can be secured using 448 Bit Blowfish or AES at 256 bit encryption. Once files are received by the client, Northstar Imaging files are deleted from hard drives using a DOD 5220.22-M shredding protocol.

If film is the preferred medium, Northstar Imaging can provide medium and large format 4"x5" negatives for use in the engagement. This presents the option of stunning detail for planning, coordination and analysis. Still and video coverage of security exercises is also available to assist in scenario planning and exercise critiques.

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Northstar Imaging's aerial photography can meet your critical infrastructure and homeland security needs, to include:

- Critical Infrastructure Planning

- Site security analysis and planning

- Disaster preparedness, response and recovery

- Communication and information

- Scenario planning

- Exercise critiques

- Environmental compliance

- Traffic control analysis, evacuation planning, and routing

- Facility vulnerability analysis and threat assessments

- Create visual databases of critical infrastructure resources

- Crowd control protocols and evacuation planning

Planning, Evaluation and Project Approval - The "view from above" is effective in communicating the big picture to all partners in site security.

Strategic Project Planning - Northstar Imaging aerial photography facilitates planning for security, materials delivery, timing, supplies placement and compliance.

Communication and Coordination - Northstar Imaging aerial photography is an effective tool in work project direction and coordination.

Documentation - Northstar Imaging aerial photography creates a permanent record of site condition.

HOMELAND SECURITY AND CRITICAL

RESOURCE PLANNING LINKS

- National Plan for Research and Development In support of Critical Infrastructure Protection

- How Homeland Security effects Spacial Information

- NOAA Imaging of World Trade Center Site

- Mapping the Risks: Assessing Homeland Security Implications of Publicly Available Geospatial Data

- Aerial photos of Hurricane Katrina destruction NOAA

- ASMP Caught In the Crossfire – Photographing through Heightened Security and Limited Access

- PDF Shows Up on Homeland Security Map

- Aerial photos critical during a disaster

- Global Security.org - historical aerial photography

- Homeland Security for Urban Areas

- Applying Spacial Technology to Homeland Security - A White Paper

Please note images processed for web applications represent only a fraction of the resolution and clarity captured in the original large format image. Mural size prints may be made without any loss in definition or clarity.