Satellite and Associated Imagery of the construction site
Tim Linder has a great idea - locating satellite imagery of the
construction site. He has located this USGS Satellite Image of the Cooper River and Bridges
for 1999. In addition, the
US Geological Survey has a very useful JAVA image browser for their LandSat images.
This link includes southern South Carolina. After clicking on the USGS link in the
previous sentence, wait for the image browser to load and then click and drag the
Charleston region to
the center of the image browser and then click on the "Resolution" menu near the top and
change the resolution to 240 meters (default is 1000 meters).
1999
From NASA: Image courtesy of
Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
February 3, 2003
I cropped the above NASA image around the Cooper River Bridge
construction site and did a little color enhancement. The James Island
Connector (big white "S") is quite dramatic.
October 5, 2003 with some color enhancement of another NASA image.
Note the "S" shaped James Island Connector to the left
February 16, 2005 Almost completed the main span with a lot of cloud
cover
October 13, 2003:
Terraserver.com has graciously contributed
this 2 meter resolution satellite image of the bridge construction site -
(click for the high resolution image).
You can clearly see the east and west on ramp
work as well as the east and west pylon construction.
February 24, 1946: A collision with the Grace Memorial Bridge
John Baxley, an aerial photographer for the past 25+ years, found this
in his archives. I was unaware of the history of the Grace Memorial
bridge and that there had been a collisions, but here it is, from the
Post and Courier, 1946. (Tim Linder, a frequent contributor to our project
did a little image magic and dramatically improved the quality of the original
half-tone image.
Johns original image and Tim's enhanced image.
Click
each image for a full presentation.
Click to view all unbuilding web page segments
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Attribution: C. Frank Starmer and Sparky Witte from http://oldcooperriverbridge.org
