14:37, 27 января, 2020
The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) promotes disaster risk reduction in remote high mountain areas of Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan through hazard, vulnerability and risk assessments, hazard maps, structural mitigation projects, and community preparedness and disaster awareness projects. Its approach combines local knowledge and practices with innovative technologies including geographic information systems, remote sensing and drones, in order to develop policies and countermeasures that are informed by the best available data and adapted to local communities, according to the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).
Assessing and monitoring hazards as well as surveying damage and collecting data during emergencies in hard-to-reach mountain areas poses many difficulties. AKAH reportedly uses remote sensing technologies to more easily and accurately map and monitor hazards and disasters in mountain areas with difficult access. It has mapped several high-altitude glacial lakes in the Baghlan and Badakhshan provinces of Afghanistan, in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) in Tajikistan, including Lake Sarez, and in Gilgit, Chitral…
