Geotagged Photos Guide Army Corps in Floods
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- Created on June 15, 2011
- Written by Geospatial Experts
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Emergency Field Office in Lake Village, Ark., is relying on geotagged photos and photo-mapping software to help repair crews quickly reach the precise locations of levee seeps during the historic Mississippi River flooding of 2011. USACE personnel are scouting the Mississippi River between Arkansas City and Eudora, Ark., to find evidence of water seeping under or through the levees. Each seep is photographed with a GPS-equipped Ricoh 500SE digital camera with built-in compass, which records the exact location of the seep and the direction from which the photo was taken. The photos are downloaded at the Emergency Field Office onto a computer running GPS-Photo Link software from GeoSpatial Experts. Learn More
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