10 News, an ABC affiliate in South California, had a short segment profiling the work undertaken at San Diego State University to map the disaster in Haiti using available aerial imagery. Since there are hundreds of different humanitarian organizations in the country, coordination is key to effectively get to everyone needing medical attention. To that effect, the US military has made public imagery taken from overflights by P3 Orion aircraft, and the SDSU visualization lab has been analyzing and annotating the data for practical use by teams on the ground.
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(hat tip: Vizworld)