We hope our effort to deliver up-to-date imagery provides the relief organizations and volunteers working around the clock with the data they need to better understand the current conditions on the ground. We hope to continue collecting updated images and publishing them as soon as they are ready. The new Sendai imagery, along with satellite imagery from throughout the area, is now live in the base imagery layer of Google Earth and will soon be visible in Google Maps. Today, we’ve published imagery of the Sendai region at even higher resolution, which we collected on Sunday and Monday. A few days after the quake, we published updated satellite imagery of northeast Japan in Google Maps and Google Earth, which illustrated the massive scale of devastation in the affected areas. We’ve been looking for ways we can assist in the relief efforts using Google’s map-related tools. As a native of Sendai city, I’m still speechless seeing the destruction and damage that has been done to the places I love and care about. Aid organizations have been hard at work and cities are starting to show signs of recovery, but the damage is beyond imagination and there are still thousands of people at shelters grappling with daily challenges. It’s now the third week after the devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck northeastern Japan. (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog, Blog and Public Policy Blog)
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