Hurricane Matthew impacted Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica on 03 October 2016. As a category 4 hurricane, it has generated floods in these countries. The National Emergency Commission of the Dominican Republic elevated a request for technical support to UN-SPIDER on 04 October 2016.
To support emergency response efforts, UNOOSA requested the Italian Space Agency to task its COSMO-Skymed satellite to acquire satelllite imagery of areas affected in Dominican Republic and Haiti. In addition, the National Emergency Commission of the Dominican Republic requested the activation of the International Charter Space and Major Disasters to acquire relevant space-based information to contribute to disaster response efforts.
Generation of relevant geospatial information is being conducted by the Inter-Institutional Geo-Spatial Information Team (EIGEO) that has been set up by the National Emergency Commission for this purpose since 2013. The EIGEO team is…
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