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Collection of data related to Hurricane Katrina which struck the southeast US in August, 2005. Starting off with the following data set.

• SuperOverlay (0.75 meters/pixel) of the downtown New Orleans area from aerial photographs taken a couple weeks after Katrina struck the city. This overlay is a mosaic of images captured over a period of a couple weeks. They were not all taken on the same date. Created by Google Earth Library from NOAA images.
• Various images from MODIS Satellite which show Hurricane Katrina.
• **UPDATED 12/17** - Added unofficial Flood Risk Maps of New Orleans area from the Army Corp of Engineers.
• **UPDATED 12/20** - Added overlays of several 1,000 post-Hurricane Katrina images collected by NOAA and the Global Connection Project. 
• **UPDATED 12/20** - A collection of data submitted by users of the Google Earth BBS.  This was compiled by Google shortly after the hurricane and contains a wide variety of information.

I will try to add more data to this collection in the future.

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Ordnance Survey Map Overlays for the UK

Gavin Brock has created an excellent overlay of the UK Ordnance Survey maps for the United Kingdom. The maps appear to be provided in several different detail levels which increase in detail as you zoom in.

Original KML Content By:

Gavin Brock’s Google Earth Hacks

Original Data From:

UK Ordnance Survey

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Description: Several new additions have been made to the MODIS Rapid Response System Gallery that I put together a few weeks ago. This collection of overlays now includes imagery from the MODIS sensor on the Aqua and Terra satellites and also the AVHRR sensor on the NOAA-15 satellite. This collection now includes the following overlays:

• The MODIS Rapid Response System Gallery contains imagery that is hand picked from the MODIS Rapid Response Team to show major events that are visible from space that day. Dust storms, hurricanes, tropical storms and wildfires are just some of the events you’ll see in this collection. The images are sorted based on the day of the year in which they were captured. Click on the name of the image under the Places folder in Google Earth to see some general information regarding the image, including a brief description of what is being shown. The collection includes over 1,000 images dating back to 2003. All of the images in the Gallery have not been included in the Google Earth collection for various reasons.

• The OnEarth WMS Layers by JPL collection contains numerous layers derived from the MODIS sensor on the Terra and Aqua satellites. Several of these are updated daily with current satellite imagery.

• The SSEC Near Realtime MODIS and AVHRR collection contains near real-time MODIS and AVHRR real time data provided by the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The MODIS imagery only covers the United States, but is available about 1 hour after the satellite overpass. The AVHRR images are available about 1-4 hours after the satellite overpass. Network links which automatically update every day are included for the MODIS imagery. You must manually download a KML file for the daily update of AVHRR imagery.

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This set of overlays will overlay tile sets from Google Maps onto Google Earth. A couple different versions are included:

• Map, Hybrid and Terrain overlays from Bernhard Sterzbach 
• Map and Hybrid overlays from jm@foo 

Special Instructions:

You may get missing tiles if you try to zoom in farther than is supported by Google Maps.

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Some Content by: bernhard.sterzbach.de

Some Content by: jm@foo

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High resolution aerial photograph of Manhattan, New York, circa 1953-1954. This was created from 8 images obtained from the USGS. I joined them together, georefrenced them and imported them as Google Earth SuperOverlays. The imagery is around 1.5 meters per pixel, however some detail is lost in the way the USGS compresses them.

Original Data From:

USGS

Original KML Content Created By:

Google Earth Library

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Description:

Overlay showing the percentage of tree cover for North America, Europe, Oceania and Africa at a scale of 1 km.

Original Data From:

Global Land Cover Facility

Original KML Content Created By:

Gerardo64 at Google Earth BBS

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A collection of several near-real-time global satellite images from the Naval Resarch Laboratory Monterey Marine Meteorolgy Divison. Includes:

• Global Infra-Red 
• Global Visible 
• Water Vapor 
• Several others 

Special Instructions:

Warning, these are not SuperOverlays and a few of the files are very large. Overlays with "Big File" in the description are about 4 megabytes. The overlays that says "HUGE File" is 40 megabytes and will only work if you have very fast connection and good video card..

Original Data From:

Naval Resarch Laboratory Monterey Marine Meteorolgy Divison

Original KML Content Created By:

Google Earth Library

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This is a high resolution (9,372 x 9,372) aerial photograph overlay of the World Trade Center site taken on September 23, 2001.

A site plan showing the locations of the former buildings and an aerial overlay from pre 9/11 are also included.

Original Data From:

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

Original KML Content Created By:

Google Earth Library

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Description:

Large collection of various weather overlays covering the entire world.

Original KML Content Created By:

ink_polaroid (User at GE Community)

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Data from the 2007 CIA World Factbook indexed geographically using Google Earth. The CIA World Factbook contains information and statistics on Geography, Population, Economy, Military, Government, etc. for all of the countries in the world.

Original KML Content By:

BZoltan at GE Community

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