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Contents
Summary
Background
What is aerial assessment?
Aerial assessment in disaster response
Orbital and aerial platforms
Assessment objectives
Challenges
Urgency of disaster response
Community engagement
Data pipelines
Technical and logistic limitations of imagery collection platforms
Coordination and cooperation
Best use of resources and opportunity cost
Data literacy among operational decision makers, partners, and end-users
Linking data to decision making
Recommendations
Better data tools
Improve partnerships
Improve assessment literacy
Cross-cutting considerations
Next Steps
Acknowledgments
Methodology
About the IFRC
About the authors
Acknowledgments
Related literature
Index