Space technology helps to predict flooding in Southeast Asia

Space technology has become an important tool in order to protect people from disaster in countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam which have all been recently affected by floods, according to Irish Weather Online.

"What is changing, to the positive, is that there are more and more local, national and regional actors who have the capacity [expertise] to use the data that we derive from the satellites, in multiple ways," said Bjorgo, head of UNOSAT’s rapid mapping unit. However, Craig Williams, a regional information management officer with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), asked "Even if you can predict it, do you have the capacity to act and mitigate it?"