DENVER, Colo., March 30, 2000 - Space Imaging has announced that within 24 hours of the tornado that struck Fort Worth, Texas on March 28, the company produced satellite imagery of the damage that resulted from the storm. The imagery is the world's first high-resolution commercial satellite imagery showing this tornado damage.

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This imagery could be used to assess and measure damage to buildings, facilities, roads and highways, utility networks and other structures. It could also be used for disaster preparedness efforts, calculating population density in disaster-prone areas, frequent monitoring of high-risk areas in order to provide early warning of potential disasters, pre-disaster assessments to facilitate planning for timely evacuation and recovery operations during a crisis, and charting quickest routes for ambulances to reach victims after any natural disaster.

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