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Will the ESA's Devastation Monitoring Systems Be Able to Save Us From the Next Coming Tsunami?
Dec 28 2005, Irani

Be it Katrina, Rita or the Tsunami - all that marked the year with devastations by nature’s fury warns us that Earth Observation was vital both for damage assessment and for coordinating emergency activities. Satellite-based maps from ESA’s Respond...

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