We've assembled National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration images of the impact of Hurricane Rita.

• NOAA Imagery
  

We've updated our Katrina data with new information including additional NOAA images of the Gulf Coast impact, an updated damage assessment file, and a listing of Red Cross shelters:

• NOAA Imagery
• Damage Assessment
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• Red Cross Shelters

We've processed four new data sets of imagery for users to see the impact of Hurricane Katrina. These data sets are being published as "view-based-refresh" services in Google Earth (translation - fly to New Orleans with this file on and wait for updated images to load in on top of the pre-Katrina New Orleans base map).

• Image America provided us black and white aerial imagery of New Orleans. While black and white, the imagery is high resolution.
• A new data set based on NOAA imagery has been stitched together showing post-Katrina New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama data.
• We've just posted a collection of 2Kx2K overlays From Space Imaging's Friday Sept. 02nd Ikonos flyover. Cities covered include: New Orleans, Biloxi, Gulfport, Mobile, and Pascagoula.
• Digital Globe data from August 31, 2005

Google Earth was supplied with a preliminary storm damage assessment conducted by the National Geospatial Agency (NGA). Click this KMZ file to see a thematic map of Katrina's impact.

• Impact Assessment KMZ

Note: This file represents a "snapshot" of the damage as of September 5, 2005. We do not anticipate getting access to updates of this impact assessment.

This KMZ file will show you satellite images of New Orleans post Katrina.  This single file should automatically fetch individual images and overlay them on top of the Google Earth basemap (before Katrina imagery).  You can use the transparency slider to see the before and after transition.

• New Orleans

Through some serious efforts by NASA, Carnegie Mellon University, and Google, an overlay has been created for 3228 post-Hurricane Katrina images collected by NOAA (through Sept 2nd). Clicking on the link below will show a marker for each image in Google Earth.  Click the marker to view the updated image for that location.  Please note that these are large overlay files so only open one image at a time for best results.

• Updated NOAA Image Overlays

Also, we have assembled a summary snapshot of all New Orleans related posts from the last 8 days. We'll be working on making this dynamic via network link, but this should give you an overview of the placemarks AND the image overlays that have been created by all our users. Very impressive work folks!

• bbs_summary_static.kmz