UN Commends Space Agencies


Tuesday 12 Aug 2008

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has commended the response time of space agencies providing maps to relief workers in Burma. It said that maps were created quickly because the RESPOND project – which delivers satellite mapping for disaster reduction and humanitarian aid – had delivered EO-derived topographic maps of Burma a month earlier.

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