EO-based tools for population monitoring and water exploration

Project Details

Description

Population tool: mapping and monitoring of refugee and IDP camps, camp density and camp population estimation. Water exploration tool: indicative geological structures and distance measurements for deriving specific information for supporting water exploration and provision. Within a Cooperation Agreement with Médecines sans Frontières, Section Austria (MSF-AT), the Centre for Geoinformatics provides tools and workflows which are provided upon request in case of emergency or humanitarian disaster
AcronymMSF Tools
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/07/1131/12/11

Fields of Science and Technology Classification 2002

  • 2702 Remote sensing
  • 1810 Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • 5962 Development cooperation
  • 5961 Population geography