April 25, 2011 Weather Event- Update1

Several data sets have been added to the ftp site including information related to the April 26th storms. FTP site http://goo.gl/5vgjG

The AGIO is coordinating with Faulkner County staff and EFS (http://www.efsgeotech.com/) to capture aerial photography for an area around Vilonia, Arkansas http://goo.gl/D5iEw

•  Area of interest- FileName = 20110426FlightPlanVilonia http://goo.gl/dED
• Imagery Capture Date: 4/28/2011 or as soon as safe and appropriate flying conditions exist.
• Quality: No fog, smoke, clouds or haze that obscure ground conditions.
• Camera: Digital 
• Type: Natural Color, RGB (no data shall be coded as such) 
• Resolution: One Foot GSD 
• Final Product: Color balance, edge-match, quality controlled 
• Format: .tiff tiled and named according to tiling scheme (FileName = 20110426AerialTileScheme http://goo.gl/dEDPf), 20:1 compressed Mr. Sid mosaic 
• Delivery date: No later than 5/6/2011 (unless flying conditions become unfavorable) 
• License: (Open Data http://goo.gl/ydyQy) product will be posted on the GeoStor ftp site upon completion of delivery to the county staff

April 25, 2011 Weather Event

We have begun posting preliminary information on the GeoStor ftp site ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Event/20110425_weather We will continue posting information on this site as we receive it. Please review the readme file for details on each data set. Please contact Learon Dalby if you create products you would like to share via this ftp site. 
 

April 30 & May 1, 2010 Storms-Part2

Link to ftp (ftp://ftp.geostor.arkansas.gov/Event/20100430_Weather)

Little Rock National Weather Service has surveyed storm damage within their area of coverage and provided a new KML file that includes confirmed tornadoes.

Data

20100430-0501-Surveyed Tornado Tracks.kml- Surveyed tornado damage from the LR-NWS

Dan Kock (@wxmandan) provided a blog post this weekend that provides additional insight to this event. 

http://wxmandan.blogspot.com/2010/05/map-of-tornado-tracks-from-april-30-may.html

GeoStor: Tornado Imagery Available

Mena imagery captured on April 11, 2009 around Mena, AR is now available on GeoStor.
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/Home.html?q=tornado

The data has been provided to the Polk County Assessor Office and local officials.

The imagery was acquired by Eagle Forestry Services, Inc (http://www.efsgeotech.com/) and purchased by the AGIO. The imagery is publically accessible and available for no fee.