Within a few hours of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, e-GEOS (a Telespazio/Italian Space Agency company) went into action to provide the United Nations, the Spanish Red Cross and the Italian ministries of Foreign Affairs (crisis units) and Defence a series of georeferenced satellite maps of the affected areas to assist the relief and humanitarian aid operations.
The work was carried out under the European Commission’s G-MOSAIC (GMES Services for the Management of Operations, Situation Awareness and Intelligence for Regional Crises) project.
Specifically, on 16 January, in collaboration
with the UN’s Department of Field Support,
the G-MOSAIC Rapid Geospatial Reporting
Service Team began supplying processed
data, images and maps of the Haitian territory.
An initial assessment of the condition
of the country’s road network, together
with analysis of the damage sustained
by the streets, was carried out with the
support of EUSC and e-GEOS. High-resolution
satellite maps of the areas before and
after the earthquake were then provided
via optical data obtained by GeoEye and
radar data from COSMO-SkyMed. Finally,
preliminary work to assess the damage
to buildings and the infrastructure is
now under way.
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Road condition
map for Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
This picture shows a road condition map
generated by e-GEOS engineers as part
of the G-MOSAIC project. On the map, road
conditions are indicated using different
colours: red shows that a road is impassable
due to the damage caused by the earthquake,
while orange roads are only partially
passable and green indicates roads that
are in a usable condition.
