Katrina Retrospective: 5 Years After the Storm
- Visualizations by:
- Greg Shirah
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast. Five years later, NASA revisits the storm with a short video that shows Katrina as captured by satellites. Before and during the hurricane's landfall, NASA provided data gathered from a series of Earth observing satellites to help predict Katrina's path and intensity. In its aftermath, NASA satellites also helped identify areas hardest hit.
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For More Information
See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/features/katrina-retrospective.html
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Alex Kekesi (GST)
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
Writer
- Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC)
Video editors
- Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC)
- Rich Melnick (KBRwyle)
Producer
- Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC)
Narrator
- Jefferson Beck (KBRwyle)
Missions
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Datasets used in this visualization
GOES (Collected with the IR4 sensor)
GOES-8 (Collected with the IR4 sensor)
Terra (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Terra (Collected with the MISR sensor)
TRMM (Collected with the VIRS sensor)
TRMM (Collected with the TMI sensor)
TRMM (Collected with the PR sensor)
QuikSCAT (Collected with the SeaWinds sensor)
SeaWinds is a scanning dual pencil-beam Ku-band scatterometer.
Dataset can be found at: http://www.mers.byu.edu/Seawinds.html
See more visualizations using this data setLandsat-7
Dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
See more visualizations using this data setLandsat-5 (Collected with the TM sensor)
TRMM and DMSP 3-hour Rainmap (A.K.A. 3B4XRT) (Collected with the SSM/I and TMI sensor)
Dataset can be found at: http://cics.umd.edu/~msapiano/PEHRPP/3b42rt.html
See more visualizations using this data setAqua Blue Marble (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
See more visualizations using this data setTerra Blue Marble (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
See more visualizations using this data setAqua Sea Surface Temperature (Collected with the AMSR-E sensor)
Aqua Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly (Collected with the AMSR-E sensor)
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