As aid workers from about the apple blitz to forward food, water, and medical affliction to the storm-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta arena and the City of Rangoon in Burma, GeoEye's IKONOS Satellite advance the admeasurement of Cyclone Nargis damage. Satellite Imaging to abutment Disaster Response will accommodate a bigger appearance of the accident aural the city-limits of Rangoon and Irrawaddy Delta - we will be able to see areas area houses accept been destroyed, copse accept been wiped out and areas are flooded These 1m high-resolution digital images advice us accept what is physically traveling on It's difficult to acknowledge to a adversity if you apprehend about it, but you don't see anything. This advice is analytical for abutment and accretion agencies - they accept to accept the admeasurement of the damage.
Houston, Texas -- With a afterlife assessment accepted to beat 100,000 or higher, Cyclone Nargis is the deadliest storm back 1991 if a chic four cyclone burst the Chittagong across of Bangladesh. As abatement workers attempt with political red band and survivors appeal for aliment and apple-pie water, digital images from the IKONOS Satellite almanac the after-effects of the storm.
"Satellite Imaging to abutment Disaster Response will accommodate a bigger appearance of the accident aural the city-limits of Rangoon and Irrawaddy Delta - we will be able to see areas area houses accept been destroyed, copse accept been wiped out and areas are flooded," said Leo Romeijn of Houston-based Satellite Imaging Corporation (SIC)."
Remote-sensing technologies accredit local, state, civic and all-embracing agencies to bound appraise accident acquired by accustomed disasters including cyclones, tsunamis, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Satellite images can be acclimated to appearance storm accident from assorted angle credibility and can advice with the planning of adversity accretion and rebuilding efforts.
Images calm afore and afterwards Nargis airtight into the Burma bank allegorize just how bound flood amnion rushed and swelled over the arrangement of creeks that change through the lower Irrawaddy delta. The storm, which started as a chic four cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, accomplished acreage as a chic three, with apprehension extensive up to 150 afar per hour. The able winds, rain, and flat after-effects pummeled the below region, which is home to about a division of Burma's 57 actor people.
Data calm from the IKONOS Satellite will advice actuate the admeasurement of Nargis' accident and plan accretion efforts. Additionally, the advice may even advice abbreviate losses in approaching accustomed disasters. Because digital images accommodate abreast information, scientists are bigger able to barometer the backbone and the aisle of hurricanes and cyclones, as able-bodied as adviser any changes as the storms ability land.
"These 1m high-resolution digital images advice us accept what is physically traveling on," Romeijn said. "It's difficult to acknowledge to a adversity if you apprehend about it, but you don't see anything. This advice is analytical for abutment and accretion agencies - they accept to accept the admeasurement of the damage."
In 2005, the IKONOS Satellite captured images of the adverse calamity afterwards Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans. Like Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, the low-lying, bowl-shaped arena was abysmal as the levees broke, and storm amnion rushed into the city. In accession to audition changes in the mural and coastline, digital imaging can advice government agencies appraise the accident done to buildings, bridges, and roads.
Launched in September, 1999, the high-resolution IKONOS Satellite captures 0.82-meter panchromatic and 3.2-meter multispectral images at Nadir which are advantageous in hundreds of applications including Disaster Recovery, ecology studies, tax mapping, Agriculture Crop Management and backwoods analysis, mining, engineering, and construction.
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