liesbeth Renders
Liesbeth is AlertNet's map officer, and gets deployed around the world by MapAction to help map emergencies and train colleagues in how to use GIS & GPS.
Satmaps said to show ethnic violence in South Ossetia
Author: liesbeth Renders
Satellite images have long been useful to aid workers and governments in planning humanitarian assistance. But the increase in availability of high-resolution commercial imagery taken from the heavens is now helping human rights workers document abuses on the ground. UNOSAT, a U.N. programme set up to put satellite imagery at the disposal of the relief and reconstruction community, has been using commercial satellites to hone in on the conflict between Georgia and Russia in South Ossetia. Analysis by UNOSAT experts shows patterns of destruction that may be consistent with evidence of ethnic attacks gathered by Human Rights Watch researchers working in the region. ...
Author: liesbeth Renders
Satellite images have long been useful to aid workers and governments in planning humanitarian assistance. But the increase in availability of high-resolution commercial imagery taken from the heavens is now helping human rights workers document abuses on the ground. UNOSAT, a U.N. programme set up to put satellite imagery at the disposal of the relief and reconstruction community, has been using commercial satellites to hone in on the conflict between Georgia and Russia in South Ossetia. Analysis by UNOSAT experts shows patterns of destruction that may be consistent with evidence of ethnic attacks gathered by Human Rights Watch researchers working in the region. ...
Searching in Angola for the hidden enemy - landmines
Author: liesbeth Renders
The dusty, potholed road is scattered with the remains of ambushed vehicles, interspersed by the occasional tank, stark reminders of 27 years of conflict in Angola. In 2002 the government and UNITA rebels signed a peace agreement which ended the combat but left a hidden enemy - landmines.
Angola is one of the most densely mined countries in the world. Away from Luanda and the shiny office buildings of oil and diamond companies lie thousands of kilometres of uncleared land, despite international and government operators working alongside each other for several years.
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Author: liesbeth Renders
The dusty, potholed road is scattered with the remains of ambushed vehicles, interspersed by the occasional tank, stark reminders of 27 years of conflict in Angola. In 2002 the government and UNITA rebels signed a peace agreement which ended the combat but left a hidden enemy - landmines.
Angola is one of the most densely mined countries in the world. Away from Luanda and the shiny office buildings of oil and diamond companies lie thousands of kilometres of uncleared land, despite international and government operators working alongside each other for several years.
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Putting disasters on the map in Mozambique
Author: liesbeth Renders
What does the lush green English countryside have in common with the parched landscape of Mozambique? Not much you might think, but both have recently had to cope with massive flooding.
Despite its technology and vast resources, Britain was overwhelmed when large parts of central and northern England disappeared under water. So how on earth is somewhere like Mozambique expected to cope - a country where over half the population lives below the poverty line.
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Author: liesbeth Renders
What does the lush green English countryside have in common with the parched landscape of Mozambique? Not much you might think, but both have recently had to cope with massive flooding.
Despite its technology and vast resources, Britain was overwhelmed when large parts of central and northern England disappeared under water. So how on earth is somewhere like Mozambique expected to cope - a country where over half the population lives below the poverty line.
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