Using GIS to model and forecast debris resulting from such natural disasters as Hurricane Katrina can help communities recover more quickly. Oct 1, 2005 By:Diana Umpierre
On August 25, 2005, with barely two days' notice, Hurricane Katrina made its first assault on the United States, hitting South Florida as a Category One hurricane. Less than four days later, with 140 mile-per-hour (230 kilometer-per-hour) sustained winds, torrential rains, and a storm surge of 15 to 30 feet (5 to 9 meters), Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast as a strong Category Four hurricane.
To limit the risk of introducing such highly communicable diseases as mad cow and tuberculosis into the U.S. food supply, the state of Kansas has built a spatio-temporal tracking system that traces the movements of cattle as they pass through that state's highly traveled beef-industry crossroads.
