Benchmarking: MDC Tools with strong GIS component
CartONG is regularly commissioned by its partners to collect data in the field. While many of those missions are surveys based on household interviews and mostly focus...
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Simple geographic data collection apps
You are a Health, WatSan or shelter specialist and on your next field trip you would like to collect a few GPS points to locate boreholes, get the distance to nearby...
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Independent Report: Drones are Ready for Disasters
Geneva/Brussels, 2 December 2016 – Drones have become functional, user-friendly and cheap enough, to significantly help in humanitarian crises. That is one of the key...
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How Drones Can Help in Humanitarian Emergencies
Few technologies have undergone as radical a change as drones. Where five years ago, drones were mainly seen as an instrument of war, today they are far more likely to...
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How Drones Helped after the Earthquake in Ecuador
On 16 April 2016, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Ecuador, causing over 660 deaths, thousands of injuries and widespread destruction across the north-west part of the...
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How firefighters in the UK are pioneering the use of drones
The Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) is constantly working to improve how they respond to incidents and how to make sure that their personnel can be...
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