Sept. 20, 2004 – Space Imaging is releasing before-and-after satellite images of Pensacola, Florida’s Historic Village along Pensacola Bay and the Chico Bayou area just to the west.
Damage from last week’s hurricane can be easily discerned when comparing the ‘before’ one-meter resolution image collected Jan. 4, 2003 to the ‘after’ image collected Saturday, Sept. 18, 2004. There is considerable amount of debris strewn across the ground in both ‘after’ images.
In the Historic Village image, note the change of location of the boats in the marina along Pensacola Bay, the sand on the road to the east of the Historic Village and the roof damage to a large structure on the end of the jetty along the water.
The damage to Chico Bayou is also evident, such as the boats in disarray, the roof off the building near several white round holding tanks, and the complete destruction of a building at the far right-hand side of the image.
The images may be used in print, broadcast and Web to support reporting on this story, with a mandatory photo credit of “Satellite image courtesy of Space Imaging.” The images are best displayed at 1:1 and may be cropped.
All images were taken from 423 miles in space as the IKONOS satellite moved from north to south at 17,000 mph over the eastern part of the U.S.