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The Asian Tsunami and Satellites

posted by Satri on Thursday December 29, @03:06PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the triggering-cooperation dept.

Very Spatial points to an ESA article about satellites aiding regional rebuilding. From the article: "A segment of GMES Services known as Respond is addressing geo-spatial information requirements of the humanitarian aid community. This ESA-sponsored alliance of European and international organisations works with industry and the humanitarian aid community to improve access to maps, satellite images and geo-information. [...] Immediately following the disaster, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was activated, prioritising the acquisition of satellite data over the affected region. [...] The Respond alliance carried out a large amount of rapid mapping in the immediate days to follow creating over 210 individual maps involving more than 19 different satellites [...] All products were made freely available over the web sites of the Respond partners, which were distributed widely and reached hundreds and some time even over thousand downloads a day."

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• spy satellites

  (Score:2, Informative)

  by palance11 (328) on Friday December 30, @10:43AM (#335)
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  there was a good article a while back on MSNBC ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6770108/)about [msn.com] the use of spy satellites to help the relief effort.
  
  Personally, it kind of bugs me that there are that many eyes in the sky looking down (when they could be looking out)

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