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EO Data Supporting MSF’s Medical Interventions

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Carrying out complex humanitarian and medical operations in emergencies is impossible without accurate and up-to-date information on the area. Most of the time there are no maps or only insufficient geographical information available in areas where MSF and other humanitarians are working, hindering relief efforts.

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  1. Médecins Sans Frontières, Vienna, Austria

    Edith Rogenhofer & Sylvie de Laborderie

  2. Médecins Sans Frontières, London, UK

    Jorieke Vyncke

  3. Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Andreas Braun

  4. University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

    Gina Maricela Schwendemann

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Rogenhofer, E., de Laborderie, S., Vyncke, J., Braun, A., Schwendemann, G.M. (2020). EO Data Supporting MSF’s Medical Interventions. In: Ferretti, S. (eds) Space Capacity Building in the XXI Century. Studies in Space Policy, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21938-3_14

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