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On the 29th of December 2004 an Earthquake
occured just off the coast of Indonesia. The quake, the
most powerful for 40 years, triggered a series of deadly
Tsunami waves which fanned out across the Indian Ocean.
UK-DMC coverage of the disaster
 DMCII responded
immediately to the news of the Asian Tsunami disaster by
acquiring images of affected countries right across the
region.
Every day since then data has been supplied to
RESPOND, an ESA funded project focussed on delivering maps
to Aid Agencies.
The RESPOND team
comprises a number of European organisations working together
to combine the power of satellite data with mapping techniques,
to deliver enhanced maps to those working in the area.
DMCII also supplied images from its archives for Sri Lanka
and the Maldives, showing the area before the disaster
occurred, for comparison with post-disaster images so that
damaged areas can be detected easily.The DMC data is valuable
because it can cover a very wide area at medium resolution.
DMC data allows an assessment of very long stretches of
coastline, so that damaged areas can be identified quickly
and resources allocated. This can help effective targeting
of high-resolution satellites where street level imaging
is needed.
DMC data
was supplied to various organisations -
- UNOSAT,
Geneva - Created a damage
map of the Nicobar Islands.
- MapAction,
UK - DMC data supplied to Sri Lanka to support in
field mapping.
- OXFAM - Requested data for the region
- SERTIT, France - Requested
data for damage detection in Sri Lanka
- KeyObs, Belgium
- Requests data for Sumatra and Banda Aceh region
Imagery
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