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S2 (Ep2) Down to Earth: Combating Climate Change Through Data Presentation

Down To Earth: A podcast for Geoscientists by Geoscientist

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Are Refugee Camps at Risk?

Mapping floods can be done using multiple types of satellites, both in meral time and historically. One example connoisseur i can tell that we've worked on with my company is working with the world food programme and the government in the republic of congo. We were able to look at historic data for four different camps and find that there was one camp that had been flooded at least three times e could see in the satellite record. So we recommended that that can'p be relocated. And they were really glad they did, because one year following that recommendation, that same community flooded again. If they had access to that kind of flood history, we could probably protect ourselves from a

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