Rapid Geospatial Data Access for Emergency Response -
Rapid Data Delivery System (RDDS)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides support to federal, state and local management agencies in response to natural hazards worldwide. The USGS Rocky Mountain Geographic Science Center (RMGSC) has been actively engaged in providing crucial and timely data and information support to natural hazards monitoring, analysis, response and recovery activities. The RMGSC has developed the Rapid Data Delivery System (RDDS) to provide emergency and incident response teams with timely access to geospatial data including a variety of vector layers and a wide range of raster data including orthoimagery, digital raster graphics (USGS topographic maps), digital elevation models, and hillshade topographic products. Raster products are generated and managed with EarthWhereTM spatial content management and provisioning system, that provides users fast access to required formats with options to reproject, mosaic and reformat data based on their specific needs.