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PDC’s DisasterAWARE® platform a milestone in its partnership, which started in August of 2019.
PDC is an applied research center managed by the University of Hawaiʻi that develops new technologies and best practices to advance the field of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. This new capability will support disaster management operations around the world.
During the recent extreme flooding that impacted New South Wales, Australia in March 2021, surpassing record levels from the last half century, Geoscience Australia on behalf of Emergency Management Australia engaged
NASA’s Disasters program to help monitor floods. Using
NASA and Pacific Disaster Center partner to develop ground-breaking global flood early warning system
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Although floods are consistently ranked among the leading causes of natural disaster losses and fatalities, there has been a major gap in technology to help sense and anticipate flood risk on a global scale until now. The NASA Disasters Program and Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) have joined forces, with funding from the Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences, to develop and incorporate new flood monitoring and early warning technology within PDC’s DisasterAWARE® platform a first milestone in the partnership which started in August of 2019. This new capability will support disaster management operations around the world.