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Friday, August 31. 2007

Among the culprits in Greek fire response: lack of imagery

Remote Sensing

As locals examine the response of the Greek government to a rash of fires that devistated many rural forest homes, technology has been identified as a limitation. Two years ago the Prime Minister promised regular imagery would be gathered to insure forest development was not occuring. That didn't happen. Firefighters note that a lack of imagery hindered responses, too.

- The Economist

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing at 07:45 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Should have asked NASA for help. I reposted a NASA Greek fires image on my blog from a public forum; I am sure NASA has much higher-res imagery.

http://blog.entchev.com/2007/08/28/nasa-satellite-image-of-greek-fires.aspx
#1 Atanas Entchev (Link) on 2007-08-31 12:47 (Reply)
NASA does not have a sensor model that's high resolution. NASA also, in so many ways, has their hands tied behind their back with the budget cuts they've endured and Earth taking a back seat to Mars (you can thank our President, I guess).
#1.1 Daniel (Link) on 2007-08-31 16:24 (Reply)
Of course, don't get me going about how things are 'managed' by many contractors in this day and age...
http://www.alternet.org/story/60950/
#1.1.1 Daniel (Link) on 2007-09-01 00:08 (Reply)
Related story:
http://www.alternet.org/story/60838/
#1.1.1.1 Daniel (Link) on 2007-09-01 22:25 (Reply)
Along those same lines. Greece is a EU member. Why didn't the EU help?


KoS
#2 KoS on 2007-08-31 12:57 (Reply)

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