So here's something clever from the states that I found via the rather cool and increasingly essential PSFK.
Last week, environmental monitoring group SkyTruth launched an alert system that provides daily updates of environmentally significant incidents in America. The free service lets you view the most recent incident reports on a map or in Google Earth, which are tracked using remote sensing and digital mapping.
It shows air and water pollution, oil spills, and other incidents on an interactive map. Notes such as the time and date, nearest city, incident type, suspected responsible party, and a report description are listed for each incident. The maps are compiled using satellite images, aerial photography and data from emergency response agencies.
If you zoom in on an area of the map that you’re interested in and subscribe to the alert feed, you will be sent notifications about new incidents in that location via email or RSS as soon as they are posted.
Is this something Surfers Against Sewage can take up and run with in the UK?
via PSFK: http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/nonprofit-group-launches-environmental-incident-map.html#ixzz1b9w1DD6c
The SkyTruth alert system is a free service open to the public that provides daily updates of environmentally significant incidents by geographical area. You can browse the most recent incident reports on a map or in Google Earth, and you can also subscribe to a personalized feed of incident reports via RSS or email. The alert feed currently contains reports generated from ongoing SkyTruth investigations, combined with selected reports from the the National Response Center that have been processed by SkyTruth's automated expert system to clean up problem data and add additional SkyTruth commentary and analysis.
http://alerts.skytruth.org/
Thanks for noticing! We would love to add the SAS alerts to our system. Let's talk!
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