Hurricane Katrina: The Aftermath
(Many updates) Watch Hurricane Katrina’s path via satellite imagery or radar; both are NOAA pages and both require Java. Via Paulo.
Kathryn Cramer has been collecting aerial images of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, along with some screenshots from Google Earth. Speaking of which, over on Boing Boing, a call for a collaborative effort to use Google Earth overlays to illustrate the damage. (Update: Google Earth overlays here and here.)
Meanwhile, on GeoCarta, Roger takes a timely look at the issue of FEMA’s flood hazard maps, which are apparently in the process of being modernized.
See previous entry: Hurricane Katrina.
Update, 8/31 at 9:20 AM: Satellite imagery of the flooding — what Morgan was looking for — is now available from NASA: Floods along the Gulf Coast, in several resolution sizes, and Flooding in New Orleans (via Cartography). More will probably come from other sources.
Update, 11:30 AM: See All Points Blog’s GIS, Maps and Katrina in the News.
Update, 1:25 PM: Landsat image of the aftermath around New Orleans (via Boing Boing).
Update, 6:05 PM: ESRI’s Hurricane Maps and Help page tries to mobilize the GIS community and provide data in crises (via All Points Blog and Spatially Adjusted). And, per Gale’s comment below, Hurricane Katrina Images from NOAA.
5Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Satellite & Aerial, Software, Weather & Climate
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BJ Richardson:
The NY Times has some pretty good interactive maps of New Orleans, including Digital Globe satellite imagery.
August 31, 2005 at 9:45 AM
galen scott:
NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey has been taking post-hurricane aerial photos and posting them to their website for the past couple of years. The first ones from Katrina have been posted and more will follow. They are public domain. Check them out at http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/
Galen
August 31, 2005 at 5:50 PM
Patricia Howard:
Was there a site here yesterday that had lists of people from the storm? If so, can you run it again. Thanks. P. Howard
September 2, 2005 at 1:26 PM
Jonathan Crowe:
No; we just do maps here. Sorry.
September 2, 2005 at 1:33 PM
lee brinkman:
i am so dam sorry it. katrina came.
she really was a bad girl.
i wish i good give more than just water.
September 2, 2005 at 3:27 PM