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Cosmo-Skymed & TerraSAR-X in response to Myanmar

posted by gignacnic on Monday May 12, @12:55PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
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To follow up on the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar there are two organisations that have published Earth Observation data on their web site: ITHACA and DLR.

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    by daedlus (1494) on Tuesday May 13, @07:55AM (#2390)
    To follow up on the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar there ARE two organisations that HAVE published Earth Observation data on their web site: ITHACA and DLR. If this had been a wiki I would have made the edits myself...
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