Guatemala Landslide Detected by EO-1 ALI
Upon request from SERVIR, EO-1 took an image of a landslide in Guatemals on Jan 9, 2009, three days after the event. The landslide is showing in pink on the left handside of the image. Approximately 240 acres of land were affected by the landslide. Reports earlier last week had indicated that some 36 individuals had been killed and 50 more missing. The news report also indicates that a large portion of the road has been destroyed.
30m Hyperspectral data is being used to analysed the damage. An underused EO-1 asset that can be used for Disaster Managment: the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) actually produces 10m Pan-sharpened data. A product that we routinely generate for burn scar detection shows the landslide in astonishing details. ALi has a wider swath (37km) than Hyperion (7.5km) and seems to produce more valuable information for disaster management application.
Our goal for the SensorWeb is to automatically generate these data products on-demand for our end-users based on themes of interest.
This might very well be a new theme we will support in the near future.