Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Mapping Project!

This community mapping project aims to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Join the Gulf Coast Google Group to get involved!

Gulf Coast Google Group

Join us for a mapping trips:

• Saturday, May 23rd to map Bayou Bienvenue
  
• Saturday, May 30th to map City Park

This data from this project has been collected, compiled and organized by volunteer efforts of the New Orleans Public Lab Community. Over the course of the coming year, we will work to map all of these sites twice. This page is the results of our compiled data as it becomes available. Read more about our project in this article by Chris Staudinger from the NOLA Defender and this research note.

Here is the Toolkit we're making in this project.. Interested in wetlands monitoring? Get started here!

Check out the sites we are working on for this project:

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Map from 10/11/14: Mapped by: Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro

Stitched by: Joneya Thompson and Catherine Nguyen
Link to map

Near Infrared Images from 10/21/14:

Mapped by: NOCCA and Scott Eustis

Oblique Link to Data

http://infragram.org/i/545ae8f085ce947d09000506

http://infragram.org/i/54492b9685ce947d090003cd

Mapped 5/30/15 by Diana, David, Molly, Harley, and Stevie
Map Stitched by Diana:

May 30, 2015

Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Map from 10/11/14: Mapped by: Brian Ruiz and Ryan Crassionnie

Notes on Mapping: We need a bigger pole!

Map from 11/11/14:

Mapped by: Scott Eustis RGB on pole Link to Data: Notes on Mapping: Go Pro Video, too

Near Infrared images from 1/24/15

Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Mapped by: 30 NOCCA Students! Stitched by Stevie Lewis

Link to Data, Notes on Mapping

Infrared images (October 11th--Blitz)

Map stitched by: Jack Faust and Meghan Speakman

Link to Data:

http://infragram.org/i/544004be85ce947d09000331

Map available at mapknitter: https://mapknitter.org/maps/city-park-nir#

Mapped 5/30/15 by: by Diana, David, Molly, Harley, and Stevie Image corrected by David Flores

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration

Last time we went here, our pole broke. Join us for our next mapping trip to capture this site!

Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant

Map from 10/11/14:

Mapped by: Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis

Notes on Mapping: Post by Gerald!

Infrared images from 10/11/14 Mapped by: Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis

Link to Data:

Molly's map https://mapknitter.org/maps/bayou-bienvenue-nir

South Shore Restoration Site

Map from 10/11/14:

Mapped by: Scott Eustis, Lauren Sullivan, Tim Link to Data: Notes on Mapping:

Mapped 4.18.15 by @danbeavers, @ddileona and @stevie
Stitched by @liz
Post on images by Liz: http://publiclab.org/notes/liz/06-10-2015/experiments-with-compositing-pole-aerial-photos-of-wetlands

Louisiana Nature Center

Map from 10/11/14: Mapped by: Scott Eustis, Lauren Sullivan, Tim and Amy LeGaux, Stitched by Scott Eustis

http://infragram.org/i/543ca2fe85ce947d090002e9

(Run in Fastie's color scheme)

Link to Data, Link to Post

Wetland Watcher's Park

Map from (12 Dec 2014) Mapped by: Gerald, Bryan, Stevie, Scott Link to Data: Notes on Mapping:

https://mapknitter.org/maps/wetland-watchers-dec-2014

Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/FGM7W

Event Posts from this Project

• The Blitz Report!
• Gerald's post on mapping Bayou Bienvenue
• Scott's note on the Nature Center
• Diana's improvement in the pole
• David's Post of the City Park site
• Diana's post of the Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain site