Finally, there’s a fine resource made available that enables users to see the latest maps, web services, and applications devoted to monitoring and tracking the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The content is being published by ESRI and other organizations to support response and mitigation activities. It seemed for days (although it felt like weeks) its been tough (or near impossible) to locate anything at all related to the situation, except for a few satellite images showing the oil spill location – trust ESRI to grab the reigns and take it upon themselves to put together a useful resource of information… KUDOS!
Users and emergency responders working in the area are invited to contact the team in order to join the group and share their related apps, services, data and resources. See the ArcGIS Online (BETA) ESRI Gulf Oil Spill Response
To date several interesting web services have been published including:
- Gulf coast oil spill plume showing approx trajectory
- Environmental Sensitivity map
- Electronic navigational charts
Other useful Oil Spill response resources:
- ESRI GeoViewer
- EPA BP Oil Spill website
- Photos from Huffington Post
- NOAA Incident website
- Flickr Gallery of useful maps
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