New Orleans

The Repopulation of New Orleans
The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center’s repopulation map shows the extent to which New Orleans’s neighbourhoods have recovered post-Katrina, using the following indicators: mail pickups and Road Home grant recipients (“stay and rebuild” vs. “sell to the State”)…. »
Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Categories: New Orleans
Google Updates New Orleans Imagery
Google has updated its New Orleans imagery in response to the outcry over its decision — made last September — to update that imagery with higher-quality images that were unfortunately, and impolitically, before Hurricane Katrina. The Official Google Blog: [I]n… »
Posted on Monday, April 2, 2007 at 11:37 AM
Categories: Google Earth, New Orleans, Satellite & Aerial
Google Reverts to Pre-Katrina New Orleans Imagery
Google has apparently replaced post-Katrina images of New Orleans with imagery from before the hurricane clobbered the city, and people are upset about that, the AP reports (choose your source for the same article: Boston Globe, Guardian, Houston Chronicle,… »
Posted on Friday, March 30, 2007 at 8:42 AM
Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Online Maps, Satellite & Aerial
More Post-Katrina Maps and Photos
Glenn of GISuser.com has been collecting photos, maps and other graphics related to hurricanes — Katrina in particular, naturally — on his Flickr account. Late to the party, but Microsoft has put in a solid, if buggy effort with… »
Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 8:10 AM
Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Satellite & Aerial, Weather & Climate
More Post-Katrina Maps
It’s been a few days since I last posted on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Here are a few more links. Apologies for letting them accumulate. ESRI’s Hurricane Katrina Disaster Viewer is, according to ESRI’s Lisa Kensok, who submitted this… »
Posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 8:58 PM
Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Satellite & Aerial, Weather & Climate
More New Orleans Flood Maps
More flood maps of New Orleans (see this morning’s entry). Kathryn Cramer, whose blog has turned into an immense resource for Hurricane Katrina information, links to a Google Maps hack that shows the approximate water depth in flooded areas; because… »
Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 9:23 PM
Categories: Hacks & Mashups, Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Weather & Climate
Mississippi Channel; New Orleans Flood Map
Over on GeoCarta, Roger goes beyond the latest satellite and aerial photography of New Orleans (which is what’s getting the lion’s share of attention); he looks at NOAA’s survey of the damage to the Mississippi River shipping channel and has… »
Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 7:27 AM
Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Satellite & Aerial, Weather & Climate
Hurricane Katrina: Google Maps and Other Imagery
I’ve been getting e-mail from people asking about the state of various locations in and around New Orleans and other areas hit by Hurricane Katrina. I’m not the best person to answer such questions — I’m just someone from small-town… »
Posted on Sunday, September 4, 2005 at 9:38 PM
Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Online Maps, Satellite & Aerial, Weather & Climate
More New Orleans Satellite Photos
Orbimage’s satellite photos of New Orleans post-Katrina, here and here, are in black and white; as a result, the detail is much sharper and the flooded parts of the city are much more visible, as the example above (courtesy… »
Posted on Friday, September 2, 2005 at 1:26 PM
Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Satellite & Aerial, Weather & Climate
Hurricane Katrina Update
I’ve been reorganizing my categories a bit; my Hurricane Katrina entries now have their own category. More satellite imagery: Before and after satellite images from GlobalSecurity.org. Landsat’s before and after images seem to have more detail than the others. NASA… »
Posted on Friday, September 2, 2005 at 10:29 AM
Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Satellite & Aerial, Weather & Climate
Hurricane Katrina: More Satellite Images
(Updated) More satellite imagery from the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina is being made available. Space Imaging’s Image Gallery has images of New Orleans before Katrina and Mobile, Alabama after Katrina (via Cartography). Digital Globe’s Hurricane Katrina Media Gallery has… »
Posted on Thursday, September 1, 2005 at 7:05 AM
Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Satellite & Aerial, Weather & Climate
Hurricane Katrina: Before and After
(Updated) Susan Kitchens has compiled and sent along an animated image (680-KB animated GIF) that shows the New Orleans area before and after Hurricane Katrina passed through; per her suggestion, I’m hosting it on my server. See previous entries: Hurricane… »
Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 at 5:30 PM
Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Satellite & Aerial, Weather & Climate
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… »
Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 10:18 PM
Categories: Hurricanes 2005, New Orleans, Satellite & Aerial, Software, Weather & Climate

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