In the News: “Assessing Dorian’s Damage From The Air” (Access Before/After Aerial Imagery of U.S. Locations)
From NOAA:
On September 4, 2019, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) began collecting U.S. aerial damage assessment images for Hurricane Dorian. Imagery is being collected in specific areas identified by NOAA in coordination with FEMA and other state and federal partners. Collected images are available to view online via the NGS aerial imagery viewer.
View NOAA Emergency Response Imagery collected on the following days:
- September 4, 2019: North Key Largo, Florida, to Hollywood, Florida.
- September 5, 2019: Fort Lauderdale, Florida to just south of Savannah, Georgia.
- September 6, 2019: Coastal and inland areas near Savannah, Georgia and Beaufort, South Carolina; coastal and inland areas from Edisto Beach, South Carolina to Bald Head Island, North Carolina
- September 7, 2019: Bald Head Island, North Carolina to Norfolk, Virginia
“Before” imagery is provided by Mapbox, Digital Globe, and OpenStreetMap; “After” imagery was captured by NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey for Hurricane Dorian
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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