NPA supports the MapAction Asian tsunami relief effort with expertise

NPA expert and MapAction volunteer, Nicola Capes was deployed to Sri
Lanka where she provided GIS and mapping services and advice to NGO‘s
in the field for the tsunami relief effort. Field information was
gathered with GPS for integration into the GIS to create quality maps
for Government agencies, UN (including Kofi Annan and team) and NGOs,
to show where the problems lay, what relief aid was needed and how to
get it there. MapAction are a charity providing rapid response mapping
services in disaster areas and development programmes and are part of
the GMES Respond consortium for global humanitarian mapping. Read
Nicola‘s account in GeoConnexion, March 2005 ‘Lending a helping hand’ and in ‘Spotlight’.