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The Oil Spill Response App.
Oil Reporter By Intridea, Inc.
BP Oil Spill By Tangozulu
The Oil Spill Response App.
This application was developed by NVision Solutions, Inc, a small, minority, woman-owned, Mississippi business, in response to the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Oil Spill Response App allows users to report oil incidents that they find along the coastal regions. They can report oiled shorelines and wildlife as well as generic reports on oil related damage and oil related incidents.
Users can upload images along with their reports. If your device is location aware, geographic positions are transmitted to the device as well to aid in local response and recovery efforts.
For more information, visit:
http://bit.ly/aVU6lJ
or
http://nvarc93.nvs-inc.com/OilSpillResponse/
Oil Reporter By Intridea, Inc.
Oil Reporter enables people to report what they see and any impact to wildlife due to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that happened on April 20, 2010. Oil Reporter was built by Intridea for CrisisCommons.
For more information, visit:
http://bit.ly/9yzErV
or
http://oilreporter.org/
BP Oil Spill By Tangozulu
Like many, I was shocked by the explosion, fire, loss of life, and resulting environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico That said, many of us don't truly recognize and appreciate the magnitude of this catastrophe.
This app shows the massive size of the spill and makes clear the extent of its reach.
The main screen shows the total amount of oil spilled in real time from the moment of explosion. Choose your own unit of measurement.
There are three estimates of spill rate to choose from. The first is from Purdue University's Professor Werely, whose software estimates flow rate based on video of the leak. The second estimate is from SkyTruth.org, of WV. They estimate spill rates from radar and satellite recon images. The third is from NOAA, and while still officially accepted, is increasingly challenged as too conservative.
There is a second screen with a timeline of events before and after the explosion. A third screen compares the relative size of this spill with other notable oil spills. Both screens are accessed via buttons on the main screen. I will update this application to keep the information current.
For more information, visit:
http://bit.ly/9MuL6T
or
http://www.tangozulu.biz/Tangozulu/BP_Oil_Spill.html
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