Images of Hurricane Katrina Gary Ellrod, NWA Remote Sensing Committee

Hurricane Katrina, 28 August 2005

 

The Remote Sensing Committee of the National Weather Association (NWA) has assembled a collection of links to satellite and radar imagery of Hurricane Katrina, as well as aerial photos of the catastrophic damage that resulted in Louisiana, Mississipi and other Gulf States on 29 August 2005.

 

• GOES satellite image loops of Katrina landfall (NWA - NESDIS):

  http://www.nwas.org/committees/rs/Katrina_IR2.avi  (2-day IR/ 27-29 Aug)

  http://www.nwas.org/committees/rs/Katrina_vis.avi   (8-hour visible/ 28 Aug)

 

 

• Miscellaneous satellite images from NASA (Quikscat, TRMM, MISR, GOES, etc):

  http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/h2005_katrina.html

 

• Aerial photos in the eye from a NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft:

  http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2496.htm

 

• Satellite altimetry observations in the Gulf of Mexico (NOAA-AOML):

  http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/altimetry/katrina_v2.pdf

 

• Storm and post-storm imagery from numerous satellites (LSU Earth Scan Laboratory)

  http://www.esl.lsu.edu/quicklinks/hurricanes/2005/KATRINA/
  http://katrina.esl.lsu.edu/katrina/

 

• Aerial photos of storm damage (from NOAA):

  http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM

 

• Google image gallery

  http://www.google.com/gadgets/directory?synd=earth&hl=en&gl=&preview=on&q=katrina

 

• RADARSAT images showing flooded areas (MDA Geospatial Services):

  http://www.rsi.ca/news/press/2005/current_event_katrina_sep05.asp

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