U.S. Diverts Spy Drone from Afghanistan to Haiti
Obviously there is a lot of focus on trying to help out following the Haiti earthquake.
Drones are showing their usefulness:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/pentagon-shares-earthquake-...
Also OpenStreetMap are doing a lot of map tracing from donated aerial photography and making these maps for aid workers on the ground. You too can help by tracing/marking features....
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Press_info
Simon
(aka. Mungewell)
Drones are showing their usefulness:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/pentagon-shares-earthquake-...
Also OpenStreetMap are doing a lot of map tracing from donated aerial photography and making these maps for aid workers on the ground. You too can help by tracing/marking features....
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Press_info
Simon
(aka. Mungewell)
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Moderator Comment by Chris Anderson on January 17, 2010 at 12:06am
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Moderator Comment by Chris Anderson on January 17, 2010 at 12:09am -
This Global Hawk image shows relief aircraft at the airport.
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Moderator Comment by Varga András on January 17, 2010 at 12:24am -
Chris, I guess that these are not photographic but SAR (synthetic aperture radar) images. That's why they are in black and white.
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