Talbot J. Brooks, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Information Technologies, Delta State University worked within MEMA, FEMA, and the rest of the alphabet soup to start GIS at the Jackson Emergency Operations Center. According to Brooks, the GIS Corps call for help came at his request. He has graciously shared his story of Hurricane Katrina, the role GIS played in the response, and the 27 August – 6 September time period…. in his words… he was “there”. Read on for a look at the response, some Q & A’s, and example maps and images from the GIScorps in Mississippi. See http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/6945/28/
Archives for September 21, 2005
Katrina maps and photos via open source tools
Tyler Mitchell (yes, the author of Web Mapping Illustrated) explains how an open standard’s-based Web Map Server (WMS) was prepared using the open source web mapping toolkit, MapServer, to serve up maps and imagery post hurricane Katrina. See details in Tyler’s weblog at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/7807