Spotlight on satellites for disaster management
Satellites can save lives from natural disasters but developing countries risk missing the opportunity through poor political support.
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Our Spotlight looks at satellite remote sensing data that can provide crucial information for managing natural disasters. Our Spotlight asks how can developing countries can access and make use of these data? And what must policymakers do to prepare?
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Features
Remote sensing for natural disasters: Facts and figures
Sian Lewis explains how remote sensing can be used to manage natural disasters and highlights ongoing efforts and obstacles.
11 November 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文
Launching your own satellite — the pros and cons
Developing nations are building their own satellites despite freely available Western data. Do the gains outweigh the costs, asks Tatum Anderson.
11 November 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文
Opinions
Fires: Spotted from satellites, warned by phone
Combining satellite data with mobile phones offers cheap and effective tools for managing fires, says South African scientist Philip Frost.
11 November 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文
Disaster management needs satellite 'constellations'
Disaster management needs constellations of satellites with multispectral sensors, says Indian space researcher, Ranganath Navalgund.
11 November 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文
Satellites can help monitor and manage African droughts
Kenyan MP and remote sensing expert, Wilbur Ottichilo, argues the time is ripe for using satellites to spot developing African droughts.
11 November 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文
Satellites offer crucial data for volcano safety
Volcano expert Geoff Wadge explains how the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters helped manage a volcanic eruption in Montserrat.
11 November 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文
Africans need earthquake education
Africans need to be more aware of earthquakes to cope with disasters — and there's no better place to start than in schools, says Chris Hartnady.
11 November 2009 | EN
News
New satellite tool to detect Himalayan forest fires
2 April 2012
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EN
Kashmir susceptible to major quakes
21 December 2011
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EN
New Chilean satellite to boost sustainable development
21 December 2011
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ES
Pakistan to expand satellite network
30 August 2011
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EN
Mobile phone alerts to warn of disaster in Bangladesh
24 June 2009
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EN
Source: Reuters India
India to set up climate change research centre
6 November 2007
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EN
Asian disaster management project to expand
27 September 2007
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EN
Peru 'needs seismic network'
25 September 2007
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ES
Flood forecasting system could help Bangladesh
7 August 2007
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EN
Nigerian satellite dogged by 'mismanagement'
29 May 2007
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EN
Nepal scientists warn of glacier flood threat
25 April 2007
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EN
Satellite data reveals seismic link to volcanoes
13 April 2007
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EN
Earthquake aid efforts hindered by image ban
19 October 2005
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EN
Source: Nature
India offers Bay of Bengal disaster-alert centre
6 June 2005
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EN
Brazil and China to launch three shared satellites
18 October 2004
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