Katrina pictures and news

Added 9/3/2005: Great map site showing known condition of various specific addressses.
http://www.scipionus.com/

The New Orleans Times-Picayune web site:
http://www.nola.com/


This is a web site still operating from downtown New Orleans. Interesting 'stuff'.
http://mgno.com/

Another excellent resource:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

Copied from the Boing Boing blog:
BB reader Phil Gross says, Regarding use of Google Earth to overlay near-live damage photos: Satellite photos of Katrina's damage will be available through Google Earth and Google Maps in the next few days. They've scheduled time on five flyovers in the next week. Poeple will at least be able to see the damage for a large part of the area at a fair level of detail. http://www.digitalglobe.com/katrina_info.html

John says, In this previous Boing Boing post, you included a link to some NASA images of flooding in New Orleans. Here is a link to high resolution images of the Mississippi gulf area from NOAA. From the main page, people should click on the "Index Map" Graphic, from there they can select which part of the state they'd like to see images for. http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/

bryan kennedy says, You might want to keep an eye on NASA's MODIS Rapid Response site. This is where images from TERRA and AQUA come before getting preocessed and geo-rectified. But you might be able to get some images of the NOLA area before they hit the press. You can get very high resolution images here.
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_Stennis

John Reiser says, I thought you might be interested in some NOAA aerial photography imagery to match up to Google Maps pre-Hurricane imagery. I'm not from the area, and I think having before and after shots demonstrate the impact of this distaster. US 90 Bridge before:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.314209,-89.305844&spn=0.024496,0.040076&t=k&hl=en
US 90 afterwards:
http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24331945.jpg

Bay Saint Louis before:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.313839,-89.327602&spn=0.012248,0.020038&t=k&hl=en
Afterwards:
http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24334575.jpg

Gulfport's Port:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.364859,-89.094572&spn=0.012242,0.020038&t=k&hl=en
and after:
http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24330924.jpg

Also, this building remained somewhat intact, while everything around it is devastated. http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24330930.jpg

Tim Holtt says, I whipped up a quick "mouse over to toggle between before and after satellite pics of Katrina" page just now. It makes it easier to see the (astounding) differences. It's here:
http://oregonstate.edu/~holtt/ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3

This satellite still
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/Katrina_nrb_DfCf_anaglyph_lrg.jpg
and animation (can take a long time to load) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Anims/Katrina_e3_all_crop2-eye.mov
from NASA’s Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) show the "strong convective development of Hurricane Katrina" on Saturday 08/27, as it moved west through the Gulf of Mexico.

Previously: Pat Scaramuzza, Calibration Analyst with SAIC at the USGS National Center in SD tells Boing Boing: Satellite pictures of the NOLA area are just coming out. We've put our Landsat 7 pics on our image gallery None of these are full resolution, but they might help anyone who is trying to make a flood map of the affected area.
http://landsat.usgs.gov/gallery/

posted by Xeni Jardin at 06:29:38 PM