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EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 88, NO. 32, doi:10.1029/2007EO320002, 2007

1,000 Wells for Darfur

Hassan Virji

Deputy Director, START, USA


Abstract

A new humanitarian mission called “1,000 Wells for Darfur” grew out of the discovery from recent space data of an ancient megalake in a large basin in that region. Eman Ghoneim, a research professor at Boston University's Center for Remote Sensing, and Center director Farouk El-Baz mapped the ancient lake's boundary using Landsat, RADARSAT, and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data.

Published 7 August 2007.

Index Terms: 1884 Hydrology: Water supply; 1829 Hydrology: Groundwater hydrology; 1809 Hydrology: Desertification.

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Citation: Virji, H. (2007), 1,000 Wells for Darfur, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(32), doi:10.1029/2007EO320002.