[HOT] #777 Hi-res imagery for Cameroon (was Mapping Northern Nigeria ?)

Blake Girardot bgirardot at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 21:31:40 UTC 2015


Hi,

I was just about to send an email to the imagery coordination team and 
see if I can find out the status of this imagery.

Jorieke is heading into the field so she is going to have limited time 
and access to help with this.

But I will for sure report back what I find out.

Cheers,
Blake



On 1/15/2015 10:23 PM, m902 wrote:
> On 15/01/2015 19:15, Jorieke Vyncke wrote:
>> Just a small remark : recently we got high resolution imagery for
>> whole Cameroon from DigitalGlobe. And in the far north along the
>> border with Nigera they face the same problems
>> <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11341289/Boko-Haram-push-across-border-to-attack-Cameroon-army.html>,
>> and Nigerian refugees are coming too... So it might be an idea to
>> start over there? I now a bunch of ngo's are working in the far north,
>> like French Red Cross, GIZ and Unicef.
>>
> I recently contributed to HOT #777 (East Cameroon - Polio Outbreak and
> Ebola Preparedness). Quite a number of squares we couldn't map much
> because there was no hi-res imagery available.
> If it is true that there is hi-res imagery for the whole of Cameroon,
> could it be made available for the area covered by #777 please?
>
> Thanks



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