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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.
Disaster management needs satellite 'constellations'
Disaster management needs constellations of satellites with multispectral sensors, says Indian space researcher, Ranganath Navalgund.
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.
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.
African development needs good geo-spatial information
Africa must make it easy to access and share geo-spatial information, says head of South Africa's mapping organisation, Derek Clarke.
Earth observation system must support basic research
An editorial in Nature welcomes plans for a globally-integrated system of Earth observation, but warns it must support the basic scientific activity of data collection.
OPINION | 25 February 2005 | EN
UNESCO should not neglect Earth sciences
Jan Zalasiewicz warns that closing UNESCO's Earth sciences division will have a severe impact on researchers in developing countries.
OPINION | 25 February 2005 | EN
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