Category — Geospatial Technology

The Google Earth blog has put together a list of some of the better KML visualizations of China’s Sichuan earthquake which already has a confirmed death toll of nearly 30000 and another 20000 feared dead. First off, check out the USGS real-time quake monitoring tool and see how many fairly powerful aftershocks have followed the main 7.9 magnitude quake. Next take a look at Steven Ho’s KML visualization of the quake which you can view in the Youtube video above. Google also got their hands on some satellite imagery of the quake’s aftermath courtesy of NSPO, Taiwan’s national space agency.

Finally Ogle Earth points to a KMZ file that pinpoints all of the damaged dams on Google Earth. Check them out. Especially if you live in the US or Canada, the visuals really brings some reality to the catastrophic situation.

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Porta Farm, Zimbabwe In June 2002: 10000 Inhabitants And 870 Structures

In a world where brutal human rights violations happen daily, NGO’s are finding ways of using geospatial technology to track and hopefully one day prevent the mass violence, genocide, deforestation and general mayhem that we in the Western world can’t comprehend. In an interview with Pingmag, Lars Bromley, director of the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science gives us some insight into the various ways geospatial technologies are being to used to digitally capture human rights atrocities in places such as Darfur. Check it out not only to advance your knowledge of satellite imagery, but also to increase your awareness of our world as well.

Porta Farm, Zimbabwe In June 2006: Total Destruction

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