Brisbane Floods

Submitted: Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011 at 22:23

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Member - Roger B (VIC)

The link below is to a before and after website. Very interesting. Cheers.

Roger B...

Site Linkfographics/qld-floods/beforeafter.htm]Site Link[/url]

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Reply By: Member - Graham H (QLD) - Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011 at 22:46

Reply By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011 at 07:22

Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011 at 07:22

Shame the budget didn't stretch to include all areas of QLD that were actually hit by record flood levels.

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Follow Up By: Rob! - Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:24

Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:24

Sir Kev,

It is not ABC's fault. Nearmap is a private company that only do arial photography of large cities.

http://www.nearmap.com/

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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 at 14:55

Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 at 14:55

NearMap does do other areas, St George was done on the 8 Mar 2010.

In my area of work these types of aerial photos assist me greatly in showing flood affected areas, so as I can make informed decisions.
By limiting the areas done is a great shame as other people will be able to view the photo's when purchasing land to build.

One can only hope all areas which were flooded were done. Including Victoria.

Cheres Kev

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Follow Up By: Rob! - Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 at 15:41

Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 at 15:41

Maybe they do, but not as often.

The other limiting factor is clouds.Brisbane had the unusual situation where flooding occured during cloudless skies.

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Follow Up By: Member - John and Val - Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 at 21:04

Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 at 21:04

Hi Kev, understand where you are coming from. Its my understanding that Nearmap aims to progressively cover a lot more of the country. But to be fair they had to start somewhere. There are just a few rural bits and pieces done, and they will add to that over time I suppose. Using aerial images makes for a longer job than using satellite imagery.

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Val

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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 at 21:20

Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 at 21:20

Val,

It is just frustrating that areas that it could be put to good use are not done at critical times which can assist with future planning.

I am still hopeful that DERM had some done for out here that I can use ;)

Cheers Kev

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