Dear Komal,
google maps (http://maps.google.com) provides satellite imagery of
adequate resolution to identify individual structures, and can
definitely be useful for spotting a landslide of that scale in an
inhabited area. It should be fairly easy to locate ranjha airport on
the map with lat-long or a general orientation that you must be
having. In fact, it you are able to locate it, it will be great if
you can mark it on wikimapia (http://wikimapia.org), which is a wiki
version of google maps and allows users to lable the map. I have
seen parts of kathmandu valley on it, and it is very useful for our
kind of work.
Best,
Anshu
On 28-Aug-06, at 12:02 AM, komal.aryal wrote:
The Kathmandu Posts' website (www.kantipuronline.com) reports that
five
hundred people are missing as the result of a massive landslide in the
far-western region of Nepal. I was wondering if there is any way that
satellite images could be obtained which would either confirm or
refute this
claim.
regards,
komal
Komal Raj Aryal
Disaster and Development Centre
Northumbria University,UK
www.unn.ac.uk/ddc
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