Ten years afterwards Hurricane Katrina struck novel Orleans, Esri has released a Story Map which examines the lawsuit of the hurricane on the metropolis in addition to how the metropolis has attempted to rebuild itself.
Katrina +10 includes half dozen primary sections; The Katrina Diaspora, Flooding, Physical Damage, Population Shift, Steady Restoration in addition to Neighborhood Reference Map. The 'Flooding' in addition to 'Physical Damage' sections let you lot to persuasion maps of the flooding caused past times the hurricane in addition to the huge position out of buildings inwards the metropolis which were tagged for demolition inwards the metropolis afterwards the disaster.
The Katrina Diaspora department shows where the ane 1000000 displaced Louisiana residents moved to afterwards the hurricane devastated the city. The Population Shift visualizes the lawsuit of this evacuation on each New Orleans neighborhood.
The Steady Restoration department of the map uses postal information to demonstrate the percent of homes inwards each neighborhood forthwith receiving mail.
In an article entitled, Is New Orleans inwards danger of turning into a modern-day Atlantis?, The Guardian paper places Hurricane Katrina into the context of over a century of technology scientific discipline projects which are causing the Louisiana wetlands to disappear in addition to which outcome inwards New Orleans beingness to a greater extent than susceptible to flooding.
The article includes historical aerial imagery in addition to maps which demonstrate the historical loss of the wetlands in addition to the projected 1,750 foursquare miles that Lousiana is expected to lose inwards the side past times side l years. Louisiana is currently losing a football game champaign of terra firma every 48 minutes.
Using historical aerial imagery from NASA in addition to USGS, ProPublica has position together an impressive interactive mapped visualization of the lawsuit of climate alter in addition to fossil oil & gas exploration on the nation of Louisiana.
Southern Louisiana is losing xvi foursquare miles a yr to the Gulf of Mexico. At the midpoint of ProPublica's map, Losing Ground, is a serial of timeline visualizations of historical aerial imagery. These timelines let you lot to detect the loss of terra firma inwards Louisiana past times comparison acquaint twenty-four hours aerial imagery amongst aerial imagery going dorsum to the 1930's.
For example, hither is the surface area of Venice in addition to West Bay equally it looked inwards 1932:
Here's how the same surface area looks today:
Accompanying the aerial imagery are a serial of interviews of people living in addition to working inwards the affected areas. These interviews are supported past times well files in addition to photos. In combination the audio, photos, interviews in addition to aerial imagery of Louisiana's terra firma loss render a powerful written report into this ongoing environmental disaster.
