ITR-RESCUE is part of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and its IT infrastructure is provided by Responsphere

The Disaster Portal project encompasses two closely related software products.

The Disaster Web Portal is an easily customizable web portal and a set of component applications used by first-responders at the local goverment level to provide the public with real-time access to information related to disasters and emergency situations. Current features include a situation overview with maps, announcements and press information, emergency shelter status, and tools for family reunification and donation management.

The Tsunami Portal is a GIS desktop client-based application which facilites awareness from multi-modal data and enables end-users to apply situational awareness information in decision making and analysis. The situation dashboard provides integrated information from multiple sources as well as a suite of analytical tools, query languages, triaging and filtering functionality.