Remote Sensing for Hazard Monitoring and Disaster Assessment
Subtitle: Marine and Coastal Applications (Current Topics in Remote Sensing)
Contributors: Eric C Barrett (Editor); Krystyna A. Brown (Editor); Anton Micallef (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: November 28, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9782881248092
Subjects: Remote Sensing; Remote Sensing Techniques; Technology & Industrial Arts; Nature/Ecology; Mediterranean Sea; Technology / Remote Sensing; Congresses; Mediterranean Region; Natural disasters
First sentence: For the purposes of this chapter, a disaster is "an event, concentrated in time and space, in which a society (or a community) undergoes severe danger and incurs such losses to its members and physical possessions (or appurtenances) that the social structure is disrupted and the fulfilment of all or some of the essential functions of the society is prevented" (Fritz 1961).