The following Internet Map Server page is provided in support of the Hurricane reconnaissance efforts in the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This research was primarily supported by Cornell University, and the Earthquake Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation, under award number EEC-9701471 to the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research. This support is gratefully acknowledged. We are also grateful to a number of partners who have helped put this site together. Specifically, George Davis of ERMapper was instrumental in integrating over 11GB of imagery into a compressed .ecw format for use in the GIS. Programmers at Manifold.net provided advice into some of the javascript routines for customizing the site. Finally, the Mississippi Automated Resource Information System (MARIS) demonstrated wonderful foresight by providing an excellent information repository for downloading geographic datasets.
Hurricane Katrina Damage Locations in Harrison County, Mississippi This site was developed to assist Cornell University and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research reconnaissance in Harrison County, Mississippi. The site includes baseline geographic data such as roads and hydrology, bridges, hospitals and schools, in addition to field inspected infrastructure. Once in the site, you can use the standard GIS navigation tools (recenter, zoom in, zoom out, zoom by box), identify features (using the info button), or query the status of all inspected features using the Select by Category or Select by Inspection Date dropdowns on the right. Also, you can create customized maps of the conditions of inspected features using the Map by Category dropdown. The site also includes links to damage photographs. You can select individual inspection location using the info tool, or select multiple locations based on a query. From there, you can then select the URL in the attribute table and link to the photo. PLEASE NOTE, THE ATTRIBUTE TABLE WILL SHOW UP IN A FRAME ON THE BOTTOM OF THE MAP. Finally, we have added the ability to perform ad-hoc spatial queries using the spatial SQL features of Manifold GIS. This is more of an advanced tool, but help files will be available shortly to accomplish this task. Click here to enter site	Articles on Cornell University’s response to the Indian Ocean tsunami activity Acknowledgement of Data Providers Satellite Imagery NOAA Vector Data MARIS GIS software used to process data and create IMS site Training in Manifold GIS donated by www.gisadvisor.com