Averting crisis: UNESCO upgrades warning systems
This project includes major upgrades to the forecasting software using the remote sensing technologies.
APP
January 13, 2014
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ISLAMABAD:
The project launched in Pakistan by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for upgrading the flood forecasting and early warning systems, has brought improvement in the forecasting capability of the country. This project includes major upgrades to the forecasting software using the remote sensing technologies, especially in connection to flood management decision making at a hierarchy of levels and its inter-relationship to flood hazard assessment and planning. “Pakistan had witnessed improvement, which was evident from the last monsoon season”, an official source told APP. But there is still a need to develop mechanism to meet the challenges for data, model and forecasting skills for improvement of flood forecasting and early warning system, he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 10th, 2014.
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