Yesterday, August 30th, partly inspired and coordinated by my blog post New Orleans Levee Break(s) Before and After, a group of us, most of whom don't know each other and have never met, struggled to create a visual understanding of what was happening to New Orleans, using the tools to hand.
A Google Earth rendition of the seen of the biggest breach before it happened. Created by Google Earth user kevin.
Created by the Google Earth Current Events Community by superimposing a media image with a pre-flood satellite image.
Created by the Google Earth Current Events Community by superimposing a media image with a pre-flood satellite image.
Looks like a new photo. I don't know if the news organzation circled the breach, or whether someone else did. Provenance unknown. I found it circulating on the internet. This image, along with one of Matthew Harris's first draft, inspired me to try amateur Before & After comparisons based on satellite imagery.
Peter Trei remarked of this one:
This one appears to be a highly foreshortened view of the bridge the carries State Hwy 39 over the short canal connecting the river and the Main Outfall canal.
The breach appears to be at opposite Jourdan Ave, near N Roman Street, at about 29 58 12.48 N 90 01 24.64 W
The thing I don't understand is that the water in this photo seems to be flowing INTO the canal.
Created by Matthew Harris using Google Earth, posted on Flickr.
(The satellite photo was taken before the hurricane at some indeterminate time.)
Created by the Google Earth Current Events Community using the superimposition technique.
The photographer had taken this at such a strange angle that I can see it was difficult to match up to the map. Nonetheless the story it tells, of a flooded city, is worth it. Disaster can make familiar places unrecognizable. Recognition of place is a pre-verbal faculty; perhaps it is even the neurological infrastructure upon which language is based. It is essential that destroyed places be made recognizable so that we can understand what happened.
The Google Earth satellite photo of Downtown before the flooding, created by the Google Earth Current Events Community.
Created by the Google Earth Current Events Community using the superimposition technique.
Created by the Google Earth Current Events Community by superimposing a media image with a pre-flood satellite image.
Created by the Google Earth Current Events Community by superimposing a media image with a pre-flood satellite image.
Created by Matthew Harris using Google Earth, posted on Flickr.
Special thanks to Patrick Nielsen hayden for assistance getting the French Quarter in the right place.
Created by the Google Earth Current Events Community by superimposing a media image with a pre-flood satellite image.
Created by the Google Earth Current Events Community by superimposing a media image with a pre-flood satellite image.
London Avenue Outfall Canal, opposite Pratt Street, a few houses south of the bridge carrying Robert E Lee Blvd. Created by Shawn 8/30/05.
From http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3"
Created by the Google Earth Current Events Community by superimposing a media image with a pre-flood satellite image.
Created by the Google Earth Current Events Community by superimposing a media image with a pre-flood satellite image.
Created by Shawn and the Google Earth Current Events Community using the superimposition technique.
Shawn says, FEMA published a map of flooded areas. The overlay is http://tehsquee.com/NOLA_FEMA_FloodMap.kmz. It's slightly off due to differences in projection between Google Earth,
and the map projection they used in (Probably a GIS software named
MapInfo)
But it gives a good idea. I guess that's my usual disclaimer.
hello i was trying to find the condition of my home my address was 1245 columbus st new orleans la 70116 my two dogs were left their if possible a picture or a web site were i can view my house or block
sincerely yours, ran out of new orlean
Closeup aerial view of the vicinity of 6100 Campus aquired 9/16 from Virtual Earth's new Katrina site.
The complete image is at
http://media.msnbc.msn.com/i/katrina/0914/after/LAORLE015006NeighObliq99N-000.jpg
What are those long thin rectangles, which are not present on the Before satellite image. Train cars? Containers?
River barges, answers the man who lives (lived?) there.
Closeup aerial view of the vicinity of 6100 Campus aquired 9/16 from Virtual Earth's new Katrina site.
The complete image is at
http://media.msnbc.msn.com/i/katrina/0914/after/LAORLE012008NeighObliq32N-000.jpg
