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The earthquake and tsunami that struck Indonesia on September 28, 2018 left more than 2,000 people dead and 5,000 missing. © Wikimedia Commons - Devina Andiviaty

A new model to predict the speed of propagation of earthquakes

IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com29/11/2020Leave a comment

The dynamics of earthquakes are better understood thanks to three-dimensional modeling of fault sliding.

Drones safely check volcano emissions

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com27/11/2020Leave a comment

Specially outfitted drones are helping scientists get close to active volcanoes in a quest to measure and better understand their carbon dioxide emissions.

Burkina Faso reaches a milestone in the conquest of space

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com18/09/2020Leave a comment

The reception of a satellite ground receiving station prefigures the mastery of space techniques for Earth observation.

Image SPOT du Piton de la fournaise (juillet 2019), volcan de la Réunion, disponible sur le portail DINAMIS. © ADS GeoIntelligence

DINAMIS facilitates the access to spatial images

Generalize open science, IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com13/09/2020Leave a comment

A new public portal to access satellite imagery for research and service delivery.

Amazon River ©IRD/Jean-Michel Martinez

Gauging rivers from space

IRDBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com30/05/2020Leave a comment

Knowledge of river flow, which is crucial information for agriculture, research or power generation, is not available everywhere from the ground. Satellites can remedy this.

An image taken from Copernicus Sentinel-2 featuring an area in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia, where part of the tropical dry forest has been cleared for agricultural use. Copyright: European Space Agency (CC BY-SA 2.0) This image has been cropped.

Satellites for development: facts and figures

SciDev.netBy luc.allemand@afriscitech.com17/04/2020Leave a comment

Satellite technology is being increasingly seen as a tool to reduce inequalities in the crucial development decade to 2030.

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