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Disaster response··3 min read
Disaster Response: When Every Minute Counts
Natural disasters demand immediate situational awareness. In-orbit data centres run rapid damage assessment, flood mapping, and fire perimeter detection on-board — pushing alerts to emergency coordinators while full-resolution archives are selectively downlinked.
Key benefits
- Accelerate disaster alerts by eliminating ground-processing delay
- Continuous monitoring even when ground stations are overwhelmed
- Prioritise affected regions for emergency downlink
- Fuse optical and SAR data for all-weather assessment
Applications
- Wildfire detection and spread modelling
- Flood extent mapping and population exposure
- Earthquake damage assessment
- Hurricane tracking and impact prediction