Balkan floods: mapping a disaster area with some help from NASA - British Red Cross blog
▻http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/emergencies/2014/06/balkan-floods-mapping-a-disaster-area-with-some-help-from-nasa
When disaster strikes a large geographical area, as it has done in the Balkans, coordinating the response to reach affected areas quickly is essential.
The last thing Red Cross staff and volunteers want to be doing when people urgently need their help, is sorting through large amounts of complex data to work out where people are in greatest need.
But help is at hand from a faraway source. Nestled in a corner of the British Red Cross headquarters in Moorgate, London, the mapping team has once again been called in to help an emergency response.
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