Abstract: A system and method that reduces the time needed to identify infrastructure that has been damaged due to a storm, earthquake, or other event. At a high level, the presently claimed invention includes the following steps. Step 1: Assigned airborne response equipped with high-powered lidar sensors to fly over impacted areas to collect a 3D point cloud. This data focuses on the 3D geometry of the built environment and may be processed in a highly automated fashion to derive the locations of downed poles and wires. Step 2: run automated processes to identify highly impacted areas—providing an output of precise XY locations of downed poles and wires. And step 3: develop unique resource allocation response given the areas of known major damage.