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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant before and after earthquake. (Photo: GeoEye)
GeoEye helps relief efforts after tsunami
(JAPAN, 4/1/2011)
When a crisis occurs on the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, everyone wants to help. As a result, GeoEye has been supporting the relief efforts by providing its satellite imagery of the devastation in northern Japan to relief agencies, governments and the media.
As soon as the news broke that a major earthquake hit the northern coast of Japan, the GeoEye team quickly began collecting post-earthquake imagery of Japan and provisioning its online Web services platform, EyeQ, so their partners in Japan could use it to aid their country.
By sheer coincidence, the first international license for EyeQ was in Japan, and their partner there, Japan Space Imaging, is using EyeQ to help with the massive disaster relief effort.
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| Train station near Shinchi, Japan - before and after earthquake. (Images: GeoEye) |
On 11 March 2011, GeoEye's order management team began directing their high-resolution satellites to collect color imagery over the Oshika Peninsula. IKONOS captured the first post-earthquake image at 10:36 a.m. local time.
As of 21 March, GeoEye had provided 29,000 square kilometers of imagery to Google. They also gave them special permission to load their Japan data into Google Earth Enterprise on the Go on laptops that were provided to first responders traveling from the U.S. to Japan so they could use the data even where they didn't have Internet connectivity.
Emergency first responders and the geospatial community are using GeoEye imagery as a base map to produce multiple-layer relief maps to assist with damage assessment, route planning and other crucial aspects of this relief effort.
Elite search-and-rescue teams that have flown to Japan from around the world to assist in this enormous relief effort are using their imagery to help locate the missing.
In addition, GeoEye´s "before-and-after" imagery has given people around the world an instant understanding of the extent of the destruction. As they have posted several new before-and-after "slider" images on their Web site, which reveal the extent of the devastation in Japan.
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