Through the DMC Satellite Constellation, the UK is a Member of the International Charter ‘Space & Major Disasters’.
The Charter is the world’s most effective and operational international effort to use space resources for natural disaster management. It is a continually developing system that, by the involvement of an ever-increasing number of nations, seeks to help emergency relief organisations to improve the outcomes, survival rates and quality of life of disaster-afflicted peoples and regions all around the world.
Forest Fires in Greece
Charter imagery used to assist the relief effort.
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Tyhoon in Taiwan
Charter responds to Typhoon Morakot
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Fires in Canary Islands
Forest fires rage in La Palma.
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Rising Flood Waters in Caprivi Region, Namibia
DMC imagery used to create maps to assist relief agencies.
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DMCii maps human and environmental activity around the globe through satellite imagery.
The British National Space Centre is at the heart of UK efforts to explore and exploit space.
The UK Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat (CCS) enhances the UK's ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies.
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK government's fight against world poverty.
QinetiQ is one of the world's leading defence technology and security companies.