Virtual Disaster Viewer
Written by Phil on May 28, 2009 in disaster preparedness, Emergency Response.
Although areas affected by earthquakes are often off-limits immediately following the event, the Virtual Disaster Viewer allows users to access information about building damage, humanitarian response, infrastructure loss, and landslides on the fly.
The viewer allows users to see satellite imagery of an area pre- and post-event, based on a number of analysis categories. An overlay of images is available for easy comparison.
The project—powered by the efforts of ImageCat, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, and others—began with data on the May 2008 Wenchuan Quake and recently added data on the L’Aquila earthquake in April.
