AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

UNOSAT

UNOSAT is a service of the United Nations providing satellite imagery and GIS services to the international humanitarian relief and development communities. The organization's humanitarian rapid mapping service provides imagery processing and mapping support to UN relief and coordination agencies involved in emergency response efforts.

This program is directly associated with the following: Projects UNOSAT -- Supporting flood relief in West Africa UNOSAT -- Monitoring IDP camps in Yemen UNOSAT -- The crisis in Gaza Publications Using very high spatial resolution multispectral satellite sensor imagery to monitor refugee camps (2000)