Images from above: A review of aerial assessment in support of humanitarian response operations

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• 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