Remote Sensing in The Relief Field

Abstract

This study aims to focus the role that remote sensing technology can play in organizing relief work, and helping to strengthen the early warning system, in a way that contributes to preventing or limiting significant damage caused by climate changes and wars, and generalizing the idea of ​​benefiting from remote sensing among Relief organizations and the affected countries. To achieve the study's objectives, the researcher used two methodologies: descriptive method to describe the uses of remote sensing technology and the possibility of benefiting from it in the humanitarian relief aspect and its classification, and deductively method to consider the possibility of applying this technology in the relief field. The study reached several conclusions, Remote Sensing has proven its effectiveness in improving the quality of relief work, providing data and information in a short time and with less effort and cost, and that among these applications is locating the displaced, identifying groundwater sources near their camps, and protecting them from the dangers of floods. The study offered various recommendations:Relief organizations should rehabilitation their employees, enabling them to analyze and process geospatial images, and governments should cooperate with relief organizations’ early warning initiatives to monitor potential risks.