{"id":1397,"date":"2005-01-15T07:48:36","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T12:48:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-15T07:48:36","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T12:48:36","slug":"csa-helps-tsunami-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"CSA Helps Tsunami Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the International Charter &#8220;Space and Major Disasters,&#8221; the Canadian Space Agency is currently leading a group of international partners in coordinating the provision of space-based imaging to help mitigate the effects of this tragedy. Satellite images and data (from satellites like Canada&#8217;s RADARSAT, as well as IRS, SPOT, LANDSAT, MERIS\/ASAR ENVISAT, ASTER) are used to better evaluate the impact of the disaster. Space-based technology is an essential tool to support and aid rescue efforts and alleviate the effects of disasters on human life.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Charter&#8217;s website to view images of the disaster at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.disasterscharter.org\"   target=\"_blank\"  ><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.disasterscharter.org  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Canadian Space Agency, visit;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.gc.ca\"   target=\"_blank\"  ><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.space.gc.ca  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tsunami was caused by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, the  massive tsunami struck Sri Lanka on 26th December 2004, killing over 140,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the International Charter &#8220;Space and Major Disasters,&#8221; the Canadian Space Agency is currently leading a group of international partners in coordinating the provision of space-based imaging to help mitigate&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-CSA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}