Tag: tornado

Tornado Imagery for Alabama and Georgia is Live

The GIC collected imagery over the tornados that struck Alabama and Georgia this week, and it is now published to our platform. Our web app also has a damage heat map for the regions we have flown that helps spot the worst hit areas. [read more on the heatmap here] You can also import your own property locations with the data import feature to visualize your properties of interest over the imagery and heat map [tutorial on data import]

Here are the regions we flew, with coverage maps below. If your organization needs access to our web app, drop an email to support@gic.org with your request.

Brent/Centreville/Calera – Bibb, Chilton, and Shelby Counties, Alabama
An Eagle sensor was used for this tornado collecting nadir images. 

Helena/Pelham/Meadowbrook – Shelby County, Alabama
An Osprey sensor was used for this tornado collecting nadir and oblique images. 

Newnan/Peachtree City – Coweta and Fayette Counties, Georgia
An Eagle sensor was used for this tornado collecting nadir images. 

Fultondale Alabama Tornado Imagery

Aerial imagery over the area hit by this weeks tornado in Alabama is live on our platform. Just over 250 square kilometers of imagery, including 45 degree oblique imagery, has been published covering the northern Birmingham suburb of Fultondale. A computer vision generated heat map of the damage is also available to all GIC members in our web app.

Below is a screengrab showing the area flown with the heat map turned on. If your organization needs access to our web app, drop an email to support@gic.org with your request.