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The UAE Space Agency is supporting worldwide efforts to ease the affect of the earthquake that struck Morocco not too long ago.
The company contributed to a number of analytic stories geared toward assessing the extent of the injury, creating efficient aid and rescue plans and continually monitoring the scenario.
The knowledge was compiled by the company’s geospatial analytics platform in partnership with the UAE authorities’s knowledge portal, Bayanat.
These stories have been submitted to the International Charter Space and Major Disasters.
Salem Butti Salem Al Qubaisi, Director-General of the UAE Space Agency, stated that worldwide cooperation within the area of responding to pure disasters constitutes an pressing necessity and requires fast and coordinated responses among the many involved authorities at numerous ranges.
The International Charter Space and Major Disasters is a worldwide collaboration amongst 17 area businesses, by way of which satellite-derived data and merchandise are made obtainable to assist catastrophe response efforts.
The UAE was the primary Arab nation to grow to be a member of the Charter.
