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Insurance hasn’t been an option for herders in Northern Kenya, because the insurance companies didn’t want to go to the expense to justify claims by traveling great distances to count dead animals in the cases of drought related deaths. Satellite imagery is now being deployed to assess pasture health and to pay out claims if [...]
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Assessing risk is an inexact science. After all, risk is unknown until something happens, and often times we’re unaware of all of the factors that lead to catastrophic change. While we can’t know every issue that leads to a calamitous occurrence, all of the inputs to these events are spatial in nature, and by amassing [...]
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