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Nearmap ImpactResponse

Aerial Images for Post-Disaster Response

Get the critical details for planning post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. Quick-start your assessment, response, and recovery planning immediately following natural disasters with inspection-grade aerial imagery of impacted areas.

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Oct 2022 | Hurricane Ian Damage, St. James City, FL

Power Your Response with a Visual Source of Truth

ASSESS the scope and severity of damage, infrastructure impact, initial reserve or budgetary requirements

RESPOND with desktop inspections, triage of field resources and planning access routes

RECOVER by tracking cleanup and post-disaster construction rebuilding efforts, substantiating claims and relief grant decisions, recalibrating risk and sustainability models

When lives are disrupted, speed matters. Assessing ground conditions after a major event can be complicated by transport interruptions, safety issues, and compromised infrastructure. But without a complete picture of what the response requires, post-disaster recovery and reconstruction efforts can be delayed — prolonging the devastation. Nearmap ImpactResponse accelerates your understanding of catastrophic damage with rapid collection of high resolution aerial imagery following natural disasters, so you can be there for your customers and communities, even when ground access and inspection resources are limited.

Exclusive Premium Survey Access

Priority access to new aerial photography, with real-time updates from our team

Comprehensive Event Coverage

Captured aerial imagery for the most prominent natural disasters - fires, hurricanes and tornadoes

Industry-leading Turnaround

Top insurers & government rely on our unmatched publishing speed

Pre-event Comparison

Leverage multiple surveys per year back to 2014 to understand change

View it Your Way

Markup and measure with our intuitive web app, or integrate with GIS

Fire damage from Dixie Fire in California seen from aerial maps
Dixie Fire, Chicago Park, CA, U.S.

Fast capture. Faster relief.

When disaster strikes, we hit the skies, capturing and publishing high-quality aerial imagery without delay — so you don’t need to spend valuable resources procuring and managing wildfire smoke maps from satellite. Covering wildfires, tornados and extreme wind events, and hurricanes, Nearmap ImpactResponse provides a reliable view of what’s happening on the ground in near real-time, allowing you to quickly assess damage and triage your post-catastrophe management response.

disaster recovery high quality images of flooding in Warsaw Landing, Louisiana
Hurricane Ida Damage, Grand Isle, LA, U.S.

Priority Access, Viewed Your Way

Receive priority access when new imagery is published, providing you the insights you need to stay one step ahead. View, measure, and markup imagery in MapBrowser, our easy-to-use web app, or integrate the latest imagery into your preferred GIS or custom application. All post-catastrophe surveys are captured at a consistent 5.5-7.5cm resolution, so you can quantify damage with confidence.

Jun 2021 | Mulica Hill, PA, U.S.
Sep 2021 | Tornado Damage, Mulica Hill, PA, U.S.

Gauge True Impact with the Benefit of Hindsight

Post-disaster aerial images shows you what’s there today — while our regularly refreshed surveys give you the full story. Nearmap captures fresh imagery up to three times annually across the United States, covering over 80% of the population across more than 797,700 km2.

Combined with pre-catastrophe captures of areas prone to severe weather, our historical imagery provides a contextual snapshot of conditions prior to an event — allowing informed decisions to calibrate your response.

Post-catastrophe insights from high resolution aerial photo surveys
Tornado Damage, Catherine Place, MO, U.S.

A Trusted Source of Post-disaster Insights

We’ve been proactively capturing the most significant weather events of the past decade, including the severe California and Oregon fires of the past two years, Hurricanes Ida and Laura, and the devastating quad state tornados. This disaster season alone, we’ve already captured 24 events across more than 31,000 km2. Our proprietary camera systems and patented processing workflow allow us to capture wide areas at speed and rapidly push our online aerial photography, without compromising quality or coverage.

The spring of 2020 was different in that we had three major tornados hit in a matter of weeks. Nearmap was very responsive; they got planes in air, and we had pictures the next day of damage on the ground. That was before we could even get insurance claim adjusters in there. Having that historical imagery along with oblique views — the way I can get eight views of the house before it was destroyed, we have a really good idea of what it would take to make that person whole again. And we win because we keep a customer, and do what we were intended to do, which is take care of them. Nearmap was a critical part of providing that foundational geospatial data to make that happen.
Director of Geospatial Capabilities, Tier 1 Insurer
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Post-disaster aerial maps of tornado damage in Pennsylvania
Tornado Damage, Trevose, PA, U.S.

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