Tragedy and Disaster

Japan: Before and After Tsunami Maps

NASA provided satellite images of Sendai, Japan before and after the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit and devastated the region on March 11, 2011. The images vary in spatial resolution. One set of images came from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellite. MODIS…

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