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Category: Mapping

September 6, 2005

Kathryn Cramer blogs Hurricane Katrina

Kathryn Cramer has some excellent Hurricane Katrina coverage on her blog in the following posts:

• New Orleans Levee Break(s) Before and After
• not too far from filling in the bowl
• NASA’s First Katrina Before and After Comparison
• Google Earth Helps Place the Flow from a New Orleans Neighborhood into the Canal in Context
• DigitalGlobe’s New Orleans Before and After Images Are Up
• How to Find Out if Your New Orleans House Is Under Water
• How to Find Out if Your New Orleans House Is Under Water, Part 2: We Really Need to Integrate Topo Maps and Known Water Depths into the System
• Escape Routes for Hurricane Victims
• Welcome, Forbes and BBC Readers
• Associated Press & Digital Globe Make Zoomable New Orleans Satellite Map Available Meanwhile, New Orleans Burns
• New Orleans: Notes from My Parents
• Welcome, New York Times Readers

Posts by her sister, Karen Cramer Shea:

• Lost in Katrina
• Rebuilding New Orleans

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September 5, 2005

Google provides satellite imagery of Hurricane Katrina aftermath

Google Maps now provides you with an overlay to give you a before and after picture of areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, such as New Orleans (click on the red Katrina Button). Google Earth also has a page which allows you to take a look at Hurricane Katrina imagery by downloading KMZ files which provide “image overlays” – instructions for using this page are provided on the Google Blog.

Really interesting stuff, I wonder how often they’re going to update the images in the future? Perhaps we’ll see the flooded portions of the Gulf Coast return to normal through the eyes of Google. 

To look at further satellite imagery which shows the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, Biloxi and the Mississippi Coastline check out Digital Globe. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also has some Aerial Photos of Hurricane Katrina’s path which cover such areas as Bay St Louis, Gulfport, Ocean Springs, Pascagoula and Middle Bay, all in Mississippi. Of course, don’t forget to check out Hurricane Katrina photos via the Katrina Flickr Tag as well as Flickr Katrina Clusters.

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