12.28.2004

Idea to Help

The guys over at India's department of Space, National Remote Sensing Agency posted a link to an 8MB powerpoint slide of satellite images of the affected areas which effectively crippled their server due to the demand. Nobody can get to any of the data which has the potential to be useful in assessing damage, planning etc due to the lack of communication on the ground. I'm working with a guy from France to get the files up on the P2P networks which will hopefully reduce the strain on the NRSA website and get the information flowing again... more to follow...

UPDATE:
So far it's been a success, here are two working links to the file. Not that many images considering the size of the file but it looks like a lot of maps are going to have to be redrawn.


LINK 1
or
LINK 2

UPDATE2:
This image is hot off of a satellite. Looks like a couple of towns are just gone.