Haiti Through Satellite Images

Click to enlarge (c) Digital Globe 2010

Click to enlarge (c) Digital Globe 2010

Satellite images of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince show the effect of the major earthquake that hit the island earlier this week. In addition to destroyed houses, the images also capture displaced people gathering in open spaces – like soccer fields – as there is no place left to go (and to be safe from aftershocks). The previous blog post outlines our human rights concerns, and urges President Obama to grant temporary protected status to all Haitians in the United States. The satellite images only provide one more piece of evidence why no-one should be returned to Haiti at this point.

In a different example of how geospatial technologies are being used to respond to the crisis in Haiti, our colleagues from Ushahidi have put out a Haiti platform in order to track developments on the ground and to support relief efforts. Check it out (works best with Firefox at this point).

See additional satellite images at the Huffington Post.

(c) Digital Globe 2010

(c) Digital Globe 2010

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5 thoughts on “Haiti Through Satellite Images

  1. this satelite is quite intresting it captures how the pole were reacting physically
    such as moving to open spaces what bueildings wew being setroyed and so on. tghis satelite is quite inpressing.

  2. this satelite is quite intresting it captures how the pole were reacting physically
    such as moving to open spaces what bueildings wew being setroyed and so on. tghis satelite is quite inpressing.

  3. The image of Haiti taken by the satellite is awesome. Haiti has been a place of unending problems. Let us hope that these problems will settle down and Haiti will get back peace. Thank you so much for posting this article.