Google Earth updates satellite imagery of New Orleans - My Hometown谷歌更新地球卫星图象的新的新奥尔良-我的故乡

Posted on April 2, 2007 at 11:41 pm张贴于2007年4月2日在下午11时41分

Apparently, there has been a lot of discussion as of late about why Google switched all the New Orleans imagery back to pre-Katrina imagery.显然，有很多的讨论，截止到年底，为何谷歌开关所有新的新奥尔良意象回到飓风来袭前的图像。 This is a quote off这是一个引述小康 Slashdot了slashdot : ：

“CNN reports that images of lands devastated by Hurricane Katrina have been replaced on Google’s map service with pre-Hurricane Katrina imagery. " 美国有线新闻网报道说，形象地遭受飓风已取代了对谷歌的地图服务与预飓风意象。 Now a subcommittee from The House Committee on Science and Technology has asked CEO Eric Schmidt for Google’s motivation behind the imagery switch. 现在一个小组委员会，由众议院科学和技术委员会已要求公司首席执行官埃里克施密特为谷歌的动机意象开关。 ‘[Congressional subcommittee chair Brad] Miller asked Google to brief his staff by April 6 on who made the decision to replace the imagery with pre-Katrina images, and to disclose if Google was contacted by the city, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey or any other government entity about changing the imagery. ' [国会小组委员会主席布拉德]米勒问谷歌，向他的工作人员，由4月6日就作出决定，以取代意象与飓风来袭前的图像，并透露如果谷歌了联系，由市政府，联邦紧急管理署，美国地质调查局或任何其他政府实体，要改变形象。 “To use older, pre-Katrina imagery when more recent images are available without some explanation as to why appears to be fundamentally dishonest,” Miller said.’ It is worth pointing out that images from Google Earth have not been changed.” " ，以使用旧的，飓风来袭前的意象时，更多最新图片，可没有某种解释为何似乎得到了根本不诚实， "米勒说， '这是值得指出的是，从图像谷歌地球上并没有改变" 。

Google wrote on their official谷歌写道其官方 blog博客 the following after all of the comments:之后所有的评论：

In 2005, shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, a very motivated group of volunteers at Google worked with NOAA, NASA, and others to post updated imagery of the affected areas in Google Maps and Google Earth as quickly as possible. 在2005年之后不久，飓风袭击新奥尔良和墨西哥湾沿岸地区，这是一个很动机组的志愿者在谷歌与诺阿，美国航天局，及其他邮政更新图象的影响范围内，在谷歌地图和谷歌地球尽快好起来。 This data served as a useful reference for many people — from those interested in understanding what had happened, to friends and families checking on the status of loved ones and property, to rescuers and relief workers. 这个数据提供了有益的参考，因为很多人-那些有兴趣了解发生了什么事，朋友和家人进行对照检查地位的亲人和财产，救援人员和救援工作者。 Shortly after the event, we received a voicemail thanking us for the role Google Earth played in guiding rescuers to stranded victims. Several months later, in September 2006, the storm imagery was replaced with pre-Katrina aerial photography of much higher resolution as part of a regular series of global data enhancements. 不久，在事件发生后，我们获得了留言，感谢大家来说作用谷歌地球起到引导救援人员滞留的受害者。几个月后，于2006年9月，飓风意象取代飓风来袭前的空中照相解像度的一部分一连串定期全球数据增强功能。 We continued to make available the Katrina imagery, and associated overlays such as damage assessments and Red Cross shelters, on a dedicated site (earth.google.com/katrina.html). 我们继续提供卡特里娜意象，并进行相关的重叠，如损失评估和红十字会的庇护所，对一个专门的网站（ earth.google.com / katrina.html ） 。 Our goal throughout has been to produce a global earth database of the best quality — accounting for timeliness, resolution, cloud cover, light conditions, and color balancing. Given that the changes that affected New Orleans happened many months ago, we were a bit surprised by some of these recent comments. 我们的目标是全国各地已产生全球地球数据库的最佳品质-核算的及时性，分辨率，云量，光照条件和色彩平衡，既然变化影响新奥尔良发生多月前，我们有点惊讶由上述若干最新评论。 Nevertheless, we recognize the increasingly important role that imagery is coming to play in the public discourse, and so we’re happy to say that we have been able to expedite the processing of recent (2006) aerial photography for the Gulf Coast area (already in process for an upcoming release) that is equal in resolution to the data it is replacing. 然而，我们认识到越来越重要的作用，这是意象来发挥，在公共话语，因此，我们很高兴地说，我们已经能够加快处理近期（ 2006年）的航空摄影为海湾沿岸地区（已在过程中，为即将发布）这就是平等，在解决数据，它正在取代。 That new data was published in Google Earth and Google Maps on Sunday evening. 新的数据公布谷歌地球和谷歌地图上周日傍晚。

Anyway, I live in one of the areas that got hit pretty hard, but thankfully my house was OK.无论如何，我住在一个领域获得击中，真是难得的，但幸好我的房子没事。 The entire area though around is still empty for the most part.整个地区虽然周围仍是空的，为大多数的一部分。 And now they are building a giant flood gate on the very pretty levee in front of our house!而现在，他们正在建设一个巨大的防洪闸门，非常漂亮的大堤前我们的房子！ You can see it here:你可以看到它这里：

The levee being worked on in front of my house!堤防正在进行这项工作，在前面我的房子！

Though I’m happy that the imagery is recent and reflects the actual state of the city.虽然我很高兴的是，意象是最近和反映实际状况的城市。 Even though it’s not pretty, it feel better in a weird way.即使它的不漂亮，会觉得好奇怪。 Otherwise it seems to take away from the actual severity of the storm.否则，似乎采取脱离实际的严重性风暴。

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