Earth observing media and environmental crisis: New Zealand 2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11157/medianz-vol13iss2id18Abstract
On 25 February, Google released satellite images of Christchurch acquired days after the 2011 earthquake. Google obtained the imagery from GeoEye, a paramilitary commercial satellite company, with which it has an exclusive agreement to digitally map data transmitted from the GeoEye-1 satellite for online circulation. Disseminated globally via press release, Google included several “before and after” images of Christchurch taken March 2009 and February 24, 2011. Geo-Eye-1 images were also used on the “Google Crisis Response” page established to aid emergency response in Christchurch, with information overlain graphically on a Google Map of the affected area (depicting shelters, water tanker deliveries, operating medical centers, open supermarkets and pharmacies, payphones, and geographic areas with working electricity).
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