PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Satellite images can help rescue efforts following the typhoon that ravaged the Philippines by accurately identifying locations of the worst damage, NASA says.
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., working in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency, have created a 27-by-33-mile map covering a region near Tacloban City, where the massive storm, one of the most powerful ever recorded on Earth, made landfall Nov. 8.