In+ersec+ion for Spatial People

A story has just been posted on Placing Culture about how remote sensing technologies are differentially being used in the visualization and production of natural disasters, comparing specifically the fallout from the Japanese nuclear disaster, Gulf oil spill, and Chernobyl.   In summary, certain natural disasters are visibile and certain ones are invisible to the eye of remote sensing instruments. The variable of time plays a multifaceted role in enabling/obfuscating the visualization and understanding of the spatial extent of these disasters.