<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/46dd36ca-2f16-44b0-9e1a-64c9d69bd196/B98547B1-080D-4095-9C46-4059FE0DBAC6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-04/st_alphageek" href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-04/st_alphageek" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-04/st_alphageek"><H1 id="articlehed">Disaster Master Sketches Rescue Map for the Big One</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-04/st_alphageek"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/C9883403-A9C4-4207-BF20-20464B788FD2" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-04/st_alphageek"><P>After a magnitude-7.9 earthquake <A href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2008/us2008ryan/">rocked</A> eastern Sichuan province last May, the Chinese government stiff-armed aid agencies at the border for a few days. So <A href="http://www.imagecatinc.com/about_executive.html">Ron Eguchi</A> figured out a new way to quarterback relief efforts—from above.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-04/st_alphageek"><P>Eguchi is CEO of <A href="http://www.imagecatinc.com/">ImageCat</A>, a risk-management company that uses satellite imagery and computer modeling to assess the impact of natural disasters and terrorist attacks. In August, he <A href="http://www.imagecatinc.com/pr_2008_08.html">repurposed his gadgetry</A> into a sort of disaster-surveillance channel, using Virtual Earth to display the quake zone as a set of zoomable images. Then he recruited engineers and social scientists to decipher them. In just a few weeks, he had the beginnings of a map of all the landslides and razed buildings.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-04/st_alphageek">"This is the next-generation tool for communication between the public and emergency-response agencies," he says. "It's about getting the right information to the right people at the right time."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B98547B1-080D-4095-9C46-4059FE0DBAC6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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