Pretty much as soon as the earthquake struck Haiti satellite experts were starting to analyse images to see what they show about the state of the country and the effects on its infrastructure.
It matters because without this kind of detailed intel, aid agencies struggling to get supplies to the needy can't plan out how to do it. The image above is from Sertit.
The specialists in this are Unosat - the UN team receiving support from the US government to analyse satellite imagery to be provided to the Haitian government, UN sister agencies and NGOs. Geoeye has been busy - as this piece in Wired shows.
This is what they came up with. It uses the satellite imagery to produce detailed data on which roads and bridges have disappeared under the rubble - a brilliantly forensic examination, which also has an up to date KML file with it.
Can you do something with our data?
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