Virtual Disaster Viewer
EEFIT is pleased to be part of an international consortium supporting the development of a first social networking tool for earthquake impact assessment - an online Virtual Disaster Viewer (VDV) for earthquake reconnaissance.
Developed by ImageCat, in conjunction with Microsoft Virtual Earth, the Virtual Disaster Viewer (VDV) represents an exciting combination of new technologies.
These include satellite imagery-based damage and situation assessments by international teams of expert engineers, along with geo-referenced ground photographs and videos collected by field teams.
VDV represents a new way of remotely viewing a disaster area and generating preliminary estimates of earthquake damage, when access to the affected area is restricted.
The following events can be viewed from the VDV website:
- 2010 Chile Earthquake
- 2010 Haiti Earthquake
- 2009 Sumatra Earthquake
- 2009 Samoa and American Samoa Tsunami
- 2009 L'Aquila Earthquake
- 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake
- 2005 Hurricane Katrina
- 2004 Hurricane Charley
- 1999 Izmit Earthquake
For technical enquiries, please contact John Bevington at ImageCat.