Monitoring of disasters

One of the most obvious uses of Remote Sensing is monitoring of disasters.

Disasters can have many faces, such as flooding, burning, land-slides and diseases.

In most cases it is possible to document and assess the extent of a disaster directly by

visual interpretation of image data, however the properties of many satellite sensors

and digital analysis can reveal disasters even before they have been spotted on the

ground.

Mapping of burnt villages in Darfur, Sudan      

Monitoring of Bark beetle attack and potential spread

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