Aerial Photography
From New Orleans Wiki
[edit] Overview
See also Updates off NOLA.com
NOAA has made a series of satellite photos available of the Hurricane path and the Gulf Coast area
Teh stated purpose of these photos is:
The imagery posted on this site is of the Gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
This imagery was acquired by the NOAA Remote Sensing Division to support NOAA national security and emergency response requirements. In addition, it will be used for ongoing research efforts for testing and developing standards for airborne digital imagery.
Please note that these images are uncorrected and not rotated. The approximate ground sample distance (GSD) for each pixel is 37 cm (1.2 feet). The images have 60% forward overlap, and sidelap unknown. Image file size is between 2 MB and 3 MB.
Most of these photos seem fairly recent and show the areas that are flooded in great (sad and depressing) detail; one can easily see houses, flood and storm damage, and boats moving through flooded areas.
Satellite imagery of Katrina's path - Note: these images are 2-3Mb each and there are thousands of them!
Navigate these images by clicking the picture of the Gulf Coast labelled Index Maps
On this larger Gulf coast map, choose the geographic location you are looking for - for instance New Orleans
which yields another index map page of the New Orleans lakeshore covered with small rectangles; each of these rectangles is a satellite photo of that geographic region.
Click a rectangle and a 3Mb file will download to your browser - magnify the image to see the detail of individual houses - for instance this one
Each of these images is named something like 24425058.jpg were the first three numbers are the JulianDate, the number of days that have elapsed since 12 noon Greenwich Mean Time (UT or TT) on Monday, January 1.
So images beginning with 243 were taken on August 30 2005, 244 were taken on August 31 2005, 245 were taken on Sept 01 2005, 246 were taken on Sept 02 2005, etc.
Now all we need is for Google to integrate these new images into GoogleMaps and/or GoogleEarth so that we can type in addresses and zoom to recent imagery of a given neighborhood.
[edit] Updates
Creator: dtolley
Publication Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 02:36:00 0200
If you go to http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/2449345.jpg if you go to bottom right corner and ckick on circle with aroows, the picture will shrink down. Go to left scroll down area and put cursor in the middle and click once. The lower left corner of picture will be Fountainebleau and Lopez. (our house is the fith up from the left, 4409 Fontainebleau) the 6th house up with the reddish roof is at the corner of Lopez and Fountainebleau. Octavia would be 1 1/2 blocks to the left. (photo 24429355 at noaa shows the same area but a little more to the south)
