Wednesday, August 31. 2005

GIS, Maps and Katrina in the News

“A monitoring team watched Katrina with GIS tracking software, overlaying her path on top of maps of BellSouth's critical infrastructure to analyze who and where would be hardest hit.”
Information Week


“ESRI is actively supporting local, state, and federal agencies and private organizations responding to Hurricane Katrina, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and other affected areas.”
ESRI Press Release

“[Insurance company GuideOne] has its own meteorologist on staff to map out the path of the storm days in advance so that once the hurricane hits, agents are in place and ready to respond. GuideOne has prepared for days, mapping out nearby hotel rooms and arranging transportation so that its agents are ready to go.”
The Iowa Channel

Katrina's path of destruction [includes an interactive map]
BBC

“In an effort to assist the communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina, HomeRentalExperts.com is offering property owners the ability to post free listings to their web-based rental listing service. Prospective renters can perform a free search by county or state.”
HomeRentalExperts.com press release

Airport delays [Airports in the hurricane-affected areas were not even on the map on Tuesday.]
FAA Flight Delays Map

“Take a road map in case the weather forces you onto unfamiliar roads. ...”
Hurricane Checklist, LKN Living, Colorado

Headline: FPL map shows when to expect power restored. [No map accompanies the story, however. The press release on Business Wire did include a map, though a login was required to access it.]
Miami Herald

“u-blox America today announced that the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) uses u-blox GPS technology to determine the strength, direction and speed of hurricanes. Most recently, close to 40 sondes have been employed to measure the characteristics of hurricane "Katrina" so as to study and predict its behavior.”
u-blox press release

Envisat sees whirling Hurricane Katrina from ocean waves to cloud tops
European Space Agency news release

“It seems to me that google earth would be breaking their necks to get pictures of the flooding in New Orleans and the sournding area, at least people would be able to look at their streets to see if they were flooded and damage if any. Heck its good business.”
InsideGoogle Blog

Images of destruction overlain on Google Earth
Flickr

Overlays for Google Earth
Google Earth Community

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