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USE OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY IN DISASTER RISK ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING* BY DR. WILBER K. OTTICHILO Director General Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) P.O. Box 18118, 0500 Nairobi, Kenya E-mail: ottichilo@ Abstract In many parts of the world, disasters caused by natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, drought, wildfires, tropical cyclones and associated storm surges, tsunami and volcanic eruptions have exacted a heavy toll in terms of the loss of human lives and destruction of economic and social infrastructure, not to mention their negati