One government agency is doing all they can to stop the oil spill

NGA Supports Oil Spill Remediation Efforts

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency personnel continue to provide on-site support of oil spill remediation efforts. This support includes continued posting of commercial imagery products to the NGA Earth public Web site at www.nga-earth.org and release of "HSIP Gold" to state and local government planners and first responders.

The Homeland Security Infrastructure Program, created in February 2002, provides the Homeland Security community with a common operational picture of integrated views of national infrastructure and critical asset information. The “gold” database includes vector, imagery and elevation data that helps decision makers and operational planners develop a common frame of reference for critical infrastructure vulnerability analysis and crisis response.

Some personnel deployed with the agency's Domestic Mobile Integrated Geospatial-Intelligence System--or DMIGS--a self-contained vehicle custom built on a fire truck chassis that allows NGA analysts to drive to a location and provide on-the-spot geospatial intelligence analysis and products.

Analysts with the DMIGS are supporting the U.S. Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Additional NGA personnel are supporting the National Incident Command Center in Washington, D.C.

NGA support includes analysis, unclassified commercial satellite imagery, and geospatial intelligence products of the Mississippi delta and surrounding Gulf coast areas. The products include graphics of major infrastructure along the Gulf coast, operational planning map atlases, and graphics depicting the extent of the oil spill. These types of products greatly assist the USCG in leveraging every available resource to respond to the Gulf oil spill.

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