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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is sharing its aerial images and data to help rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria, which have been devastated by earthquakes.
US space agency administrator Bill Nelson said expert teams were hard at work providing valuable information from the Earth-observing fleet to rescuers. NASA uses its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) which can observe Earth in all weather conditions, day and night. It is used to measure how the ground moves and how the built landscape changes after an earthquake, the agency said on its website. A team of scientists from the Singapore Earth Observatory and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory collected images before and after the quake and created a "indirect damage map" for Turkey. These proxy maps compare radar images before and after the earthquake to see how the landscape changed after the devastating tragedy. Applied Earth Sciences, the agency's national and international collaborations make these proxy maps available to the US Department of State, the California Earthquake Safety Commission, the World Bank, and Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief. ALSO READ: 5 days later, the search for survivors continues; the toll is close to 24,000
