Database Points To Most Needed Areas in Asia.
"Newsday.com has an interesting article, 'Database helps pinpoint greatest
need, which shows how technology can be used to assist distribution of aid
in times of need. Even the U.S. Department of Defense is in on this,
providing satellite imagery while Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is
using LandScan.
The ORNL press release is here.
While there has been much in the way of criticism and defense of the role
of the United States in assisting the affected countries, it is good to
see that the logistics support is being done and - more so - that even the
Department of Defense is rendering serious assistance in coordinating
efforts..."
Links available on weblog.
http://www.knowprose.com/node/1128
Taran Rampersad
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