Improving life with satellite mapping
Frithjof Voss, a German professor and expert on satellite image mapping, who died in 2004, created a system to detect potentially deadly locust swarms before they reach a critical mass and begin to devour crops and vegetation. He demonstrated the viability and effectiveness of this state-of-the-art remote sensing system in field experiments in Africa and Asia.
"The system as it stands now has proven workable and easily applicable anywhere in the world. Locusts do not recognise national borders and neither does my system.”
Besides eliminating locust plagues and alleviating the threat of famine, Voss’s work has the potential to protect ecosystems, promote scientific agriculture and encourage cooperation between countries.
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The sudden death at the age of 68 of Professor Frithjof Voss, a Rolex Associate Laureate in 1996, has saddened all those who supported his work.
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