Software development to speed up disaster management with remote sensing

When a disaster occurs, earth observation specialists must analyze a considerable amount of images as quickly as possible to help rescue teams or to make on-the-fly decisions. As there is currently no remote sensing software that is specific for natural disasters, we propose in this work to determine the basic requirements for such software and develop a test framework for such application. Our approach includes a state of the art review on current earth observation software as well as disaster response needs. We also list requirements based on our review and propose a solution for providing software assistance to photointerpreters. Finally our test framework is presented.