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.

Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 10:18 PM
Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Satellite & Aerial, Software, Weather & Climate

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The NY Times has some pretty good interactive maps of New Orleans, including Digital Globe satellite imagery.

BJ Richardson | 08/31/2005 at 9:45 AM | #

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

galen scott | 08/31/2005 at 5:50 PM | #

Was there a site here yesterday that had lists of people from the storm? If so, can you run it again. Thanks. P. Howard

Patricia Howard | 09/02/2005 at 1:26 PM | #

No; we just do maps here. Sorry.

Jonathan Crowe | 09/02/2005 at 1:33 PM | #

i am so dam sorry it. katrina came.
she really was a bad girl.
i wish i good give more than just water.

lee brinkman | 09/02/2005 at 3:27 PM | #

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