Wednesday, November 11, 2009

SciDev.Net has a doeier on remote sensing and disasters

Number of victims of natural disasters per 100,000 inhabitants
1976-2005 Source: EM-DAT via SciDev.Net

Just last year (2008), natural disasters affected 214 million people, killed more than 235,000 and cost more than US$190 billion.

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