ERDAS Haitian Relief

Start working with the data in our web client immediately.

We have updated our Online Web Services to incorporate the GeoEye imagery of Haiti collected on January 13, 2010 (made available for free download). This very large area has been properly georeferenced.

UPDATE January 29: NOAA January 23, 2010 Aerial Imagery, the Google-provided Digital Globe Imagery from January 13, 2010, the World Bank/RIT Aerial 15 cm January 21, 2010 and the Pacific Disaster Center Hospital Locations collected via GPS

UPDATE January 28: World Bank/RIT Aerial Imagery Collected on January 22, 2010

UPDATE January 25: NOAA Aerial Imagery Collected on January 20, 2010

UPDATE: January 21: 15 cm Google Aerial Imagery from January 17, 2010 and the NOAA Aerial Imagery from January 18, 2010

UPDATE: January 20: NOAA Imagery Added January 17, 2010

Imagery Credits
Google: Imagery provided by Google and distributed by these services are to be used solely for non-commercial use related to emergency relief, and to provide and distinct proper photo credit on products generated through these services.

GeoEye: Imagery provided to the public by GeoEye and distributed by these services are to be receive a proper and distinct photo credit to “GeoEye Satellite Image.”

NOAA: Imagery provided to the public by NOAA is to receive a proper and distinct photo credit to "NOAA".

RIT: Data and value-added products derived from imagery distributed by these services are to remain within the public domain with public access and are not for commercial use. The imagery is provided courtesy of the Rochester Institute of Technology and Image Cat Incorporated, with funding from the World Bank.

Data Production Notes
Note that any end user can directly consume these images from the online web services in ArcMap/ArcGIS Server, AutoCAD, MapInfo, web clients, open source thick clients, ERDAS IMAGINE and our hosted web services. Individuals may also consume the image in ECWP in ArcMap, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, many other thick client packages and web clients by downloading the ECW Plug-in.
1.       The “Google” GE data was provided to the public in 91 .tar files for download that contain 725 image tiles for the coverage area.
2.       The data was mosaicked into one 135 GB file.
3.       The one mosaic file was compressed to ECW, resulting in a 3GB file.
4.       OGC Web Services and ECWP streaming for this data have also been created and are available online for direct use on the Web or in GIS applications.
We are providing the ECW file and Web Services to assist anyone participating in the emergency relief efforts.

Web Services

Access Web Services for this Data   Access the Vector Data as a WMS in Thick Client Applications (http://apollopro.erdas.com/erdas-apollo/vector/Haiti?)

View the Capabilities of the WMS (http://apollopro.erdas.com/erdas-apollo/vector/Haiti?request=getcapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3)

Access the Features as WFS in a Thick Client Application (http://apollopro.erdas.com
/erdasapollo/vector/Haitirequest=getcapabilities&service=WFS)

Access the Imagery through ECWP, WMS and the ImageX:   ECWP URL to the Google Earth/GeoEye Haiti Image hosted by ERDAS (ecwp://iws.erdas.com/images/haiti_earthquake/ge_dg_jan_01132010_102700.ecw)

WMS URL for the IWS Server (http://iws.erdas.com/ecwp/ecw_wms.dll?)   

Capabilities Document for the IWS Server (http://iws.erdas.com/ecwp/ecw_wms.dll?request=GETCAPABILITIES&service=WMS)

Layer description in the WMS Service for the “Google” GeoEye Image

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<DataURL>
<Format>text/xml</Format>
<OnlineResource xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="http://iws.erdas.com/ImageX/ImageX.dll?dsinfo?layer=/images/haiti_earthquake/ge_dg_jan_01132010_102700.ecw"/>
</DataURL>
</Layer>