Under News and World Events Category in the GE Library Browser:

Google Earth BBS Discussion:

Greensburg Kansas Imagery

Before and after imagery showing the destruction in Greensburg, Kansas from an F5 tornado that struck the town on May 4, 2007.

Original Data and KML Content By:

Google

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Google Earth BBS Discussion:

Description:

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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Description:

This collection contains a wide variety of data for the California wildfires of October/November 2007. I created Google Earth versions of many of the data sets and others are simply linked from data sets prepared by others. The following data sets are included in this collections.

• Daily MODIS Satellite imagery courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project at NASA/GSFC

• Time animation based on GOES West Satellite imagery collected every 30 minutes during the first several days of the fires.

• Data showing extent of fires from various sources

• Placemarks linking to the locations of destroyed/damaged homes

• Placemarks linking to georeferenced photographs from several Flickr groups.

• Placemarks linking to georeferenced videos from SignOnSanDiego

• Wind pattern animation created by JPL

I will try and continue to add data sets to this collection as it becomes available.

Original KML Content Created By:

Google Earth Library and Various Others

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