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  • Taiwan's Space Programme Offers Tsunami Satellite Images to Aid Relief

    12/29/2004 9:13:19 PM PST · by anymouse · 7 replies · 9,706+ views
    Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged Asia at the weekend to affected countries and aid groups for free. The National Space Programme Office (NSPO) normally charges 3,000 euros (4,080 dollars) for each photograph covering an area of 600 square kilometres (240 square miles), the office said. The images would be provided free of charge to affected countries and had been posted on NSPO's website, programme head Lance Wu said. Its images of badly hit Puhket island in Thailand and Indonesia's Banda Aceh were probably among the first taken...