| Abstract |
Earth observation satellites contribute to providing significant and unique solutions in all disaster management areas: disaster mitigation, disaster preparedness, disaster relief and also disaster rehabilitation. Such solutions are already an integral part of disaster management activities in many developed and even developing countries. Even though national capabilities in the use of space technologies in developing countries are increasing at a significant rate there is still a definite need to support in a more direct way the transfer of these available technologies, while at the same time proposing methodological approaches that are indeed customised and appropriate to the specific needs of the country.
|
