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ESA News
http://www.esa.int

15 January 2010

New satellite maps of Haiti coming in

As rescue workers scramble to provide assistance to hundreds of thousands of
people following Haiti's earthquake, Earth observation satellite data
continues to provide updated views of the situation on the ground.

Following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January,
international agencies requested satellite data of the area from the
International Charter on 'Space and Major Disasters'.

The Charter, an international initiative aimed at providing satellite data
free of charge to those affected by disasters anywhere in the world,
immediately began re-tasking their satellites to get the data urgently
needed.

Data are being collected by various satellites including Japan's ALOS,
CNES's Spot-5, the U.S.'s WorldView and QuickBird, Canada's RADARSAT-2,
China's HJ-1-A/B and ESA's ERS-2 and Envisat.

These data are being processed into maps that show the degree of
destruction. As soon as new data arrives, updated maps will be produced and
made available to the international community. The updates may be accessed
by clicking on the links on the right.

Other satellite missions that are complementing those from the Charter
include Germany's TerraSAR-X, Italy's COSMO-SkyMed, South Korea's KOMPSAT-2
and the U.S.-based GeoEye-1.

Together with ESA, the Charter currently has 10 members: the French space
agency (CNES), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO), the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), the Argentine Space Agency (CONAE), the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency (JAXA), the British National Space Centre/Disaster Monitoring
Constellation (BNSC/DMC), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the China
National Space Administration (CNSA).

[NOTE: Images and weblinks supporting this release are available at
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMDDBMJ74G_index_1.html ]

 




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