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Harvey Images

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This draft page is attempting to create a workflow for people to identify reportable issues captured in aerial photography of Harvey-affected areas, specifically industrial sites.

Photo: By SC National Guard (170831-Z-AH923-081) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Steps to report

Here we're organizing the required steps. We can make each into an activity later, and begin doing more outreach.

Compile sites

  • Gather/compile lists of at-risk sites in TX (oil refineries, sewage, nuclear etc.)

Main source: Surging Seas: Risk Finder -EPA tool allows coastline reports by state and specific risk (ex. oil refineries)

Add other sources here too.

Add them here (you'll need to be logged in)

Harvey Ecological Hazards Map

Gulf Restoration Network Map of Oil

Sierra Club Map of Toxic Sites Harvey

List of Texas Landfills

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - Data Tool

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Compile image sources

See question compiling image sources here

Image sources:

NOAA Harvey Images

TX National Resources Information Center -"before" images

The Texas General Land Office -"before" images

USGS Earth Explorer Tool

Compare to aerial images

Check through images from image sources for these locations and check if they are flooded--in some cases you can see sheen or waste
* His images have meta data with GPS aligned with plane location, so it won't be perfect--might have to search a bit
* If you find something that looks flooded or suspicious write down a simple report like on a spreadsheet
* Make sure to do a screen capture of the footage to attach to report
* We send all data back to Scott since it involves his photos (in his work this can amount to lawsuits for companies)


videoexplaining, maybe, what could be done (bad audio?) https://youtu.be/O2bV1a1gNfA

master sheet of links https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12ZMti2lH4sST6Apzp_DeCQld4z4ioTmm7LdFiF8fK4A/edit#gid=1

Facilities lists to scan through

Source information for facilities
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7ipKYaoi-eYMFMwZU1qZm94d1U/view?usp=sharing

map of these data
https://gulfwetlandsmap.carto.com/viz/c827e7ac-e17a-4a83-a3b6-4e075f4172c6/embed_map


Imagery sources to scan through

NOAA imagery to scan: