Using technology to save lives
admin November 11th, 2009
We’ve written here before about the role that planning, data analysis and prediction can play in reducing the impact of natural disasters.
The EM-DAT database (a WHO initiative) is a huge repository of information about disasters that has been built up over more than 40 years, and Advance Aid has already been mining this data to help develop its business plan – if you can use historical data to predict where disasters are most likely to happen, you can certainly fine-tune your pre-positioning and warehousing strategy.
Now SciDevNet has produced a whole section of its website devoted to covering “Remote Sensing for Natural Disasters” .
