The Remote Sensing Committee of the National Weather Association (NWA) has assembled a collection of Web links to satellite and radar imagery of Hurricane Katrina, as well as aerial photos of the catastrophic damage that resulted in Louisiana.
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)
NWS long-period radar animations for Katrina landfalls in Florida and Louisiana (Brian McNoldy, CSU-Ft. Collins):
http://einstein.atmos.colostate.edu/~mcnoldy/tropics/katrina/
Miscellaneous satellite images from NASA (Quikscat, TRMM, MISR, GOES, etc):
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/h2005_katrina.html
Collection of images from ENVISAT (European Space Agency)
http://earth.esa.int/ew/cyclones/Katrina_Hurricane-aug05/
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/
Aerial photos of storm damage (from NOAA):
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM
http://earth.google.com/katrina.html
RADARSAT images showing flooded areas (MDA Geospatial Services):
http://www.rsi.ca/news/press/2005/current_event_katrina_sep05.asp