Experts and laypersons worked together to map structural damage from the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Official and open-access mapping technologies can assist in managing the aftermath of natural disasters, but standards are needed.
The terms of risk and disaster are often confused when it comes to natural hazards like floods. Flemish and European Union authorities each have methods and directives for managing such situations.
Using sophisticated Earth observation tools, a group of students from the NASA DEVELOP internship program find that hurricanes and other severe coastal storms can greatly accelerate the erosion and shoreline change of a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico.
