New Orleans satellite images
Aug 31, 2005 | Life | Photos
landsat of new orleans post-katrina

The satellite images of a post-Katrina Gulf coast are starting to roll in; so far, the USGS LandSat image has the best view of the amount of land saturated by water. (For a good previous comparison, go to the USGS Global Visualization Viewer for New Orleans (requires Java!), and take a look at the 240-meter resolution images for December 2002 or January 2003.) I suspect we’ll be seeing some higher-resolution images from GlobeXplorer and Space Imaging in the next few days, and of course, there are plenty of images from the ground that reinforce how immense the damage is.

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Here are some high-resolution ones of the coastline:
http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/

• Posted by: Scott on Aug 31, 2005, 5:12 PM
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