Over the past 15 years, scientists and disaster responders have increasingly used satellite-based Earth observations for global rapid assessment of disaster situations. We review global trends in satellite rapid response and emergency mapping from 2000 to 2014, analyzing more than 1000 incidents in which satellite monitoring was used for assessing major disaster situations. We provide a synthesis of spatial patterns and temporal trends in global satellite emergency mapping efforts and show that satellite-based emergency mapping is most intensively deployed in Asia and Europe and follows well the geographic, physical, and temporal distributions of global natural disasters. We present an outlook on the future use of Earth observation technology for disaster response and mitigation by putting past and current developments into context and perspective.
VOIGT Stefan;
TONOLO Fabio Giulio;
LYONS Josh;
KUCERA Jan;
JONES Brenda;
SCHNEIDERHAN Tobias;
PLATZECK Gabriel;
KAKU Kazuya;
HAZARIKA Manzul Kumar;
CZARAN Lorant;
LI Suju;
PEDERSEN Wendi;
JAMES Godstime Kadiri;
CATHERINE Proy;
MUTHIKE Denis Macharia;
BEQUIGNON Jerome;
GUHA-SAPIR Debarati;
2016-11-22
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
JRC102617
0036-8075,
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6296/247,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC102617,
10.1126/science.aad8728,
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