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Thailand – Andaman Sea

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Six of us went to Thailand to survey a fishing village called Ban Nam Khem four years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The idea was to test using satellite imagery to monitor long-term disaster recovery.

Bangkok is hot and steamy, like a concrete jungle. There were two or three days of presentations, meetings and interviews with relevant officials and academics. And I also got to see the life on the streets and canals.

We spent a week in Ban Nam Khem, a fishing village on the west coast that had been badly damaged by the tsunami. The team talked to lots of villagers and community leaders. We also surveyed all the buildings and did a household survey of residents.

Each morning  I would go down from my hotel room and swim in the milk smooth Andaman Sea. Then, just as the sun was beginning to rise, I’d swim for an hour and then join the others for breakfast

We had a day off and visited the fabulous ‘James Bond’ Island in Phnag Nga Bay. Phuket where Roger Moore fought Scaramanga played by Christopher Lee in ‘Man with the Golden Gun’.

The work we did back in Cambridge, melding the imagery analysis with the Views survey data, key informant interviews and household survey data broke new ground in developing a way of tracking and monitoring recovery after major natural disasters and was published in a report entitled Disaster Recovery Indicators.

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