NATO MENA SPACE CAPABILITIES AND SECURITY CHALLENGES, Naples, İtalya, 28 - 29 Haziran 2022, ss.1-15
The World has become more vulnerable to natural
disasters: Natural hazards and climate events, such as drought in Africa and
some parts of Asia while hurricanes hit Caribbean countries, floods in Asia and
even in the most developed countries, like Germany, and landslides in
others...the world faced several epidemics, recently with Covid 19, and around
the world, we are in different stages of responding to the emergencies.
Space technologies, which are vital to the early
warning and management of the effects of disasters, can be useful and play
critical roles in the risk assessment, mitigation, and preparedness phases of
disaster management, as well as in the reduction of disasters. The
establishment and use of these technologies require countries to be able to
incorporate the routine use of space technology-based solutions, which is not a
greater problem in developed countries, however, to increase awareness, build
national capacity and develop solutions that are customized and appropriate to
the needs of the developing world is hard in the most vulnerable parts of the
world, firstly for economic reasons, and most of these countries are not
space-faring States.
This paper discusses a new policy framework which
should be developed specifically for the application of satellite technologies
for real-time sharing of regional satellite data is especially critical in
disaster risk reduction.