Like the Indian Ocean tsunami before it, Hurricane Katrina has validated the importance of high-resolution satellite imagery in responding to natural disasters, but the market for using this type of data before the fact to mitigate or even prevent certain calamities has not taken off as quickly as some industry officials had hoped.

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