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Projects
ISFEREA -- Scientific and technical support to...

Publications
A GIS - environmental justice analysis of particulate air pollution.... Michael Jerrett, Richard T. Burnett, Pavlos Kanaroglou, John Eyles, Norm...

Which Came First? Toxic Facilities, Minority Move-In, and Environmental Justice. Manuel Pastor Jr., Jim Sadd and John Hipp

A Population-Based Assessment of Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Ethnic.... Vincent Iacopino, MD, PhD; Martina W. Frank, MPH; Heidi M....

Programs
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

US Holocaust Memorial Museum Mapping Initiative

UNOSAT

Data and Tools
European Commission Joint Research Center Fuzzy Matcher. European Commission Joint Research Center

Sudan Interagency Mapping data.

MODIS imaging data. NASA

UNOSAT -- Supporting flood relief in West Africa

Website URL: http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/news.asp?id=699

Website Description: The current seasonal floods in West Africa are affecting over 350,000 people. With floods reported in Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Mali, Liberia and Guinea, the UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) supports sister agencies UNICEF and UNOCHA with satellite image derived analyses of the situation. Using satellite imagery from multiple dates, the evolution of flood conditions is monitored and the latest changes on the ground observed.

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Programs
UNOSAT
UNOSAT is a service of the United Nations providing satellite imagery and GIS services to the international humanitarian relief and...