{"id":5638,"date":"2010-01-18T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa-satellite-natural-hazard-networks-supporting-disaster-recovery\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T08:51:00","slug":"nasa-satellite-natural-hazard-networks-supporting-disaster-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/nasa-satellite-natural-hazard-networks-supporting-disaster-recovery.php","title":{"rendered":"NASA Satellite, Natural Hazard Networks Supporting Disaster Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An image of Port au Prince, Haiti, captured by NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite on Jan. 15, 2010, shows damage to the city's pier, when compared with an image from Sept. 2008. Credit: NASA<\/i> › Full Story<\/a><\/span><\/div>

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NASA<\/span>'s considerable Earth-observing and data analysis<\/span> and distribution capabilities have been mobilized to provide information to support disaster recovery efforts in Haiti after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.

NASA <\/span>has tasked two of its space-based, high-resolution instruments to image areas hardest hit by the earthquake<\/span>. Before-and-after scenes of Port-au-Prince, for example, will be used to aid with damage assessment and recovery.<\/p>

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)<\/a>, a Japanese-U.S. instrument with visible, infrared and thermal infrared sensors flying on the Terra spacecraft, took observations of the region on Jan. 14. The data are being processed and compared with pre-earthquake imagery. ASTER will again revisit the area on Jan. 19 and Jan. 21.<\/p>

NASA<\/span>'s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1)<\/a> satellite is scheduled to obtain multispectral images of the region on Jan. 15.<\/p>

NASA <\/span>and the NASA<\/a>-funded<\/span> SERVIR<\/a> Rapid Response Mapping team at the Center for Water in the Humid Tropics in Latin America and the Caribbean are on standby to support the damage assessment efforts once EO-1<\/span> and ASTER <\/span>data are available.<\/p>

NASA <\/span>is coordinating its efforts with international space agencies through the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response, as well as agreements with the Committee on Earth Observations and the Group on Earth Observations.<\/p>

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