NIC Interactive Map of Spill Response

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The National Incident Command (NIC) has developed an Interactive Map of the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It provides near-real time data on trajectory estimates for the oil slick and locations of deployed research vessels, oiled shorelines, wildlife data, and fishery area closures.

View the map at: http://www.geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse/

(Source: Bryant’s Maritime News)

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