Mr. Michael Ramage described the advantages of a systematic and independent satellite Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for Disaster Recovery, which nowadays still does not exist.
The availability of VHR Satellite Imagery presents the opportunity to enhance and supportexisting data collection tools, such as ground surveys and social-audit methods, because of its ability to collect quantitative datasets across large geographic regions in a manner that is replicable, independent, reliable and non-intrusive