Germany provides instant satellite maps of Haiti

Bonn, Germany - Instant satellite maps of Haiti that show which roads have been cut by its killer earthquake have been passed to relief workers, Germany's space agency DLR said Saturday. The images of the landscape were passed to the German Red Cross and the German civil-defense agency THW.

A DLR spokeswoman in Bonn explained, "Satellites make images of land surfaces much like a digital scanner. Our scientists decoded this data and turned it into up-to-the-minute maps."

A Bonn relief group, Help, said it had landed two workers in Haiti early Saturday, while another group, the Knights of Malta aid arm, said it was about to fly its second medical relief mission into Haiti.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/304128,germany-provides-instant-satellite-maps-of-haiti.html.