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In addition to supplying an NGO with satellite communications on St Thomas island, the team also evacuated a small number of patients with critical healthcare needs (including a pregnant lady) to San Juan. Both missions were aided by the heat maps.
Planetary Response Network & Rescue Global: Caribbean Storms 2017Help identify targets for aid operations by Rescue Global.
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The PRN has been supported by Imperative Space and European Space Agency as part of the Crowd4Sat programme. Any views expressed on this website shall in no way be taken to represent the official opinion of ESA.
Some of the data used in this project has been provided by DigitalGlobe as part of their Open Data Program. The images have been color-balanced and tiled into subjects, but not otherwise changed. The PRN is grateful to DigitalGlobe for providing this data.
Some of the data used in this project has been provided by Planet. We would like to acknowledge the Planet Team (2017) Planet Application Program Interface: In Space For Life on Earth. San Francisco, CA. https://api.planet.com License: CC-BY-SA
The Planetary Response Network (PRN) is grateful to Amazon Web Services for open hosting of Sentinel 2 and Landsat 8 images.