Geospatial apps help temper Mother Nature's fury

This year, Namibian officials hope to get a head start against catastrophic weather situations. Their approach is to create a geospatial application that taps satellite imagery and river-height sensors and get an early read on when and where the flood waters are coming -- helping them decide where to deploy the right resources. Namibia's project exemplifies an emerging, though largely untested, set of geospatial applications that are still in their technological infancy but promise to have many life-saving uses across the world.

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