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More Haiti geospatial resources

 
January 20th, 2010 by Susan Smith

Satellite Imagery

GeoEye Imagery of Haiti Earthquake

http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/Default.aspx

DigitalGlobe Haiti Crisis Event Coverage

DigitalGlobe is now offering full resolution GeoTIFF imagery over Haiti free. http://www.digitalglobe.com/

RapidEye has completed imaging of all of the regions in Haiti that have been most affected by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit the area on January 12. http://www.rapideye.de

RADARSAT-2 space-based imagery is being used to assess damage and direct relief efforts to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince from the January 12, 2010 earthquake.www.mdacorporation.com

Maps

USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/290_20.php

FortiusOne has created a news dashboard with the latest volunteered and official source data. http://news.geocommons.com/haitiquake

Google Maps
http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/haiti/Haiti-Earthquake-nl.kml

DeLorme has developed a free GPS-accurate dataset to assist in the Haitian relief efforts.
The company was contacted by numerous aid groups following the earthquake. A team of employees worked through the past weekend preparing a custom dataset utilizing the GPS-accurate DeLorme World Base Map along with aerial imagery, all of which can be displayed within the company’s XMap software and on Earthmate PN-Series handheld GPS units.

Communities

OpenStreetMap
OSM and MapMaker data discussion, CrisisCamp Haiti discussion http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/

Ushahidi http://sitroom.ushahididev.com/

CrisisCommons http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/index.php?title=.php&title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake

Web Services
ERDAS has updated their Online Web Services to incorporate the GeoEye imagery collected January 13, 2010 (made available for free download). Users can also access the image in ECWP in ArcMap, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, many other thick client packages and web clients by downloading the ECW Plugin freely available for download on the ERDAS website


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