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Remote Sensing - Tsunami Gallery

Table of Content:

Landsat 7 Tsunami Image 1

Landsat 7 Tsunami Image 2

Quickbird Tsunami Image 1

Quickbird Tsunami Image 2

Quickbird Tsunami Image 3

IKONOS Tsunami Image


 Landsat 7 Tsunami Image 1

Northwestern Sumatra, Indonesia on Dec. 13, 2004 (pre-disaster). Landsat 7 ETM+ (true color image: bands 3,2,1).
Source: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/archive/e0003.html
 

Landsat 7 Tsunami Image 2

Northwestern Sumatra, Indonesia on Dec. 29, 2004 (post-disaster). Landsat 7 ETM+ (true color image: bands 3,2,1).

Source: NASA http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/archive/e0003.html

 

Quickbird Tsunami Image 1

 

Banda Aceh, Indonesia on Jun. 23, 2004 (pre-disaster). DigitalGlobe QuickBird Image.
Source: Disaster Charter http://www.disasterscharter.org/graphics/dis/CALLID_079/bp_quickbird_banda_aceh_08.jpg

 

Quickbird Tsunami Image 2

Banda Aceh, Indonesia on Dec. 28, 2004 (post-disaster). DigitalGlobe QuickBird Image.

Source: Disaster Charter http://www.disasterscharter.org/graphics/dis/CALLID_079/bp_quickbird_banda_aceh_09.jpg

 

Quickbird Tsunami Image 3

Kalutara, Sri Lanka (top), on December 26, 2004, — about an hour after the first in the series of waves hit. A Quickbird image taken on January 1, 2004 (lower), shows the normal ocean conditions. DigitalGlobe Quickbird Image.

Source: NASA http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/ReleaseImages/20050110/01_srilanka.jpg

 

IKONOS Tsunami Image

Khao Lak, Thailand before and after the Tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004. The first image was taken on Jan. 30, 2003 and the second image on Dec. 29, 2004. Ikonos image.

Source: DLR ZKI http://www.zki.caf.dlr.de/media/download/applications/2004/thailand/DLR_thailand_khao_lak_north_1-12500_medium.jpg

 

 

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