Staff Writer The view of Lancaster County through the county's Geographic Information System is about to change.
The pictures, some seen publicly for the first time last week, are exactly what they should be: shocking, depressing, sobering. If the images don't bring back the precise terror of that September day, its echo is eerily audible. These are the only aerial photos of the attacks on the World Trade Center, taken from a police helicopter assigned the vain task of looking for survivors on the roofs of the buildings. Taken that day by former New York Police Department detective Greg Semendinger, they had remained hidden away for more than eight years, until a Freedom of Information request from ABC News pried them loose last week. They are worth seeing (via computer, visit buffalonews.com/ slideshows).
When a fisherman off the coast of Maine went overboard last fall and his empty boat was discovered later in a cove, search-and- rescue teams exhausted their efforts trying to find the man's body. That's when volunteers pitched in, including a team of imagery analysts and engineers from the Dayton area, to renew the search with aerial photographs. The high-resolution photos were sent to Chris Rowley, Kevin Culli and John DeWeese, all Dayton area defense contractors, who then put to civilian use their many years of experience analyzing military surveillance images.
HAVANA - The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in the Atlantic and warned of dire consequences if Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev dared to cross it. An American U-2 spy plane flying high over Cuba had snapped aerial photographs of Soviet ballistic missile sites that could launch nuclear warheads with little warning at the United States, just 90 miles away. It was the height of the Cold War, and many people feared nuclear war would annihilate human civilization.
Residents living in communities near BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport may notice large white X's painted on public rights-of-way in the coming days, airport officials said. The markings are for an aerial mapping project and will be removed once mapping is complete. The marks are used to calibrate aerial photographs that are used to make the maps.
CHEYENNE -- After more than a year of planning, designing and monitoring progress, the state Department of Transportation took delivery last week of a plane used to take aerial photographs. It will replace the agency's existing photogrammetry plane -- a Cessna 206 -- that has been in service for about 23 years. Aerial photographs are used during mapping and planning phases for WYDOT projects.
Since beginning the project, Bynum has spent thousands of dollars of his own money renting airplanes and shooting aerial photographs of the landscape as the exploratory wells are drilled.
INDIANAPOLIS - A massive explosion sparked a huge fire and killed two people in an Indianapolis neighborhood where about three dozen homes were damaged or destroyed, authorities said Sunday. The powerful nighttime blast shattered windows, crumpled walls and could be felt at least three miles away. Aerial photographs of the once-tidy neighborhood of one- and two- story homes showed at least two had been reduced to blackened pits of debris. Other homes had sections gutted by fire or holes in their roofs or exterior walls. Siding dangled from the outside of other homes, and crumpled garage doors hung from houses nearby. Pieces of wood and other building materials littered the street and surrounding properties.
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