Mashup: Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster
An explosion on the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010m sparked the greatest environmental disaster in United States history. This mashup visualizes the area that would be covered if the oil spill was in your city, or any other city.
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| Amentum Ocean | Amentum Ocean API provides programmatic access to values of ocean salinity, temperature, and currents, as predicated by the Real-Time Ocean Forecast System (RTOFS) model, for the following day. The... | Marine | REST v1.0.0 |
| Senstate Environmental Data | Senstate's Open Data API provides access to environmental data from Senstate's services for different environmental caterogies, such as air quality, water quality, background noise, ambient radiation... | Environment | REST v1 |
| RapidSOS Emergency WorkFlow | The RapidSOS Emergency WorkFlow API enables partners of RapidSOS to automate workflows from the antiquated, complex 9-1-1 system into a single API call. RapidSOS is an emergency response data... | Emergency | REST v1 |