Monday, June 13th, 2011
The research has been helping China’s disaster management authorities better understand the full impact of the catastrophic flooding that would occur if one of China’s, and the world’s, biggest dams collapsed. The work could also be applied in...
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
The mostly devastated coastal communities now face regular flooding, because of their lower elevation and damage to sea walls from the massive tsunamis triggered by the quake. In port cities such as Onagawa and Kesennuma, the tide flows...
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Coastal countries and municipalities are reinforcing their protective walls by building higher and higher dikes, but the problem is usually not their height. The dikes are simply too weak. An early warning system whose data can be...
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
The German Remote Sensing Data Center (Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum; DFD) and the German Space Operations Center (GSOC), both of which are part of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), are continuing to provide...
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Over the past three months, AAM has played a vital role in responding to natural disaster events in Australia. AAM has worked closely with Governments of Queensland and Victoria, as well as Brisbane CityCouncil in pre and post...
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The RapidEye constellation of five earth observation satellites have been focused on the East Coast of Australia, dedicating resources to capture valuable images of the ever- changing face of our flooding landscape. The readily enhanced RapidEye satellite...
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
A new set of national engineering guidelines for dealing with storm and floodwaters are bogged down in funding problems, while Victoria's major flood strategy is more than two years behind schedule and still incomplete. Urban flooding is...
Saturday, January 15th, 2011
Since December 2010, floods have been hitting Australia, particularly in Queensland. A new map application is now available to provide updated information. It shows the scope of flood response, including evacuation centers and accessible roads near Brisbane,...
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
A RAGING wall of water charged through Toowoomba, a city in south-east Queensland, on January 10th, sweeping unsuspecting people before it. Two days later, the floodwaters had reached Brisbane, the state’s capital and Australia’s third-largest city (population...
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The flooding of the Vaal river has caused considerable crop damages along its banks in three provinces, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said on Monday. "We have really been touched by the amount of devastation, particularly...
