The NGS Remote Sensing Division regularly flies post-Hurricane imagery and posts them to their web page. For Harvey this is: https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/harvey/index.html
As I post this, the northernmost extent of coverage is Rockport, TX. Imagery does not extend very far inland.
Had heard a large multi-engine prop plane flying over all day today. I couldn't see it through the cloud cover.
Heck it may have been numerous big prop planes flying over, bringing in supplies. Do they recon through cloud cover ??
Here is the site for the NOAA aircraft operations: https://www.omao.noaa.gov/learn/aircraft-operations/aircraft
Not sure which aircraft is being used.
I am also not sure whether they perform recon as I assume they probably just program their flight management system to insure appropriate coverage.
Thanks for posting. I spent way too much time looking through the images south of Rockport. I have assessed damage after a number of hurricanes in an official capacity over the last 25 years. I get drawn in very easily. The media's attention is currently focused on the flooding in Houston. No doubt it is catastrophic and in a highly populated area. But there appears to be a tremendous amount of damage from Rockport south visible in the narrow strip of imagery along the coast. The devastation will exceed 200 miles of TX coastline in a combination of wind, surge, and flood damage. Massive.
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FWIW,
The link provided above is for Harvey. This site: https://ngs-storm-viewer-web.azurewebsites.net/storms/index.shtml provides links to imagery for earlier disasters.
I imagine the extent of coverage for Harvey will expand once cloud cover lessens.
HTH,
DMM
Glad to see my old weekend fishing shack, Tarpon Inn still standing in Port Aransas
GeeOddMike, post: 443998, member: 677 wrote: Not sure which aircraft is being used.
Thanks Mike, and nm. The clouds cleared earlier and it was a giant C-130 flying approximately 2-3 mile square patterns at about .. 1000' ??
NOAA NGS RSD imagery now available for Houston, Galveston and environs. Coverage as of 1010 PDT on 31 Aug 2017 shown in image below.
Don't know this has been posted before. An interesting Harris county flooding article from 2016 (pre-Harvey) with accompanying interactive graphics.
