DigitalGlobe’s satellites take high-definition photographs of areas hit hard by disaster like Nepal, and volunteers then help identify where roads are impassable, survivors’ tarps are located, and determine where aid needs to be sent, and how. Other projects include identifying where farmers are starting dangerous and smoky fires in Indonesia in order to clear forest to plant palm oil trees. DigitalGlobe’s Bert Turner spoke to Edie Lush of Techonomy partner Hub Culture during the WEF Latin America event in Mexico. The company was also featured at the Techonomy 2013 conference in Tucson, Arizona, where DigitalGlobe’s Walter Scott spoke on a panel called “Mapping As Platform: Are We There Yet?”
Satellites, Helped by “the Crowd,” Aid Crises in Nepal and Elsewhere
DigitalGlobe’s satellites take high definition photographs of areas hit hard by disaster like Nepal, and volunteers then help identify where roads are impassable, survivors’ tarps are located, and determine where aid needs to be sent, and how. Other projects include identifying where farmers are starting dangerous and smoky fires in Indonesia in order to clear forest to plant palm oil trees. DigitalGlobe’s Bert Turner spoke to Edie Lush of Techonomy partner Hub Culture during the WEF Latin America event in Mexico.
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