Post-Katrina Aerial Photos

By | September 2, 2005

NOAA has posted detailed aerial photos from this week. I was told by a friend that they were satellite images, but I’ve since read that they were aerial photos. I thought they were a little too detailed to have been taken by a satellite. They have an image map of the area where you can click on boxes to more easily find what you are looking for. You can also download big compressed files with images from larger areas. nce you figure out what area you are looking for, it makes sense to download the images. The images are quite large, so it may be difficult to zoom in on them in a web browser. The Ocean Springs page also includes Biloxi.

Here are some of the images with objects I identified (or at least think I identified) from Biloxi.

The second path went over the parts of Biloxi that border the south side of the Back Bay. Unfortunately, there aren’t any images of the north side, so I can’t see the neighborhood where my mother’s house is.

2 thoughts on “Post-Katrina Aerial Photos

  1. Arthur Bell

    I need to see the railroad area between Holly St. and Lee St.(In Biloxi).
    Art Bell

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  2. Robert Post author

    Here’s the photo.

    http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24333305.jpg

    You’ll see part of Deer Island at the top. Start at the bottom strip of the large pier near Deer Island. The next major street going down the photo (east on a compass) is Bellman Street. There is a large, squarish building with a white roof about 2 blocks in from the beach on Bellman.

    Go down the photo again to the next major street. This is Lee. There is a curvy E-shaped building about 1 block north of Lee. That’s a school. About three streets down from Lee is Holly.

    You can see the railroad tracks running up and down the photo close to the right edge.

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