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Tropical Cyclone in Taiwan

Processed on Oct 26th 2010
Disaster Information
Name: 
Tropical Cyclone in Taiwan
Region: 
Taiwan
Occurance Date: 
23/10/2010
latitude: 
24.0486
longitude: 
121.531

Heavy rains have triggered massive rockslides on a coastal highway, trapping up to 400 travelers.

typhoon, rockslides, Taiwan

Activities of the European Satellite Operators Association (ESO) Disaster Management

Event: 
Fourth United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop on Disaster Management and Space Technology: “The 4C – Challenge: Communication – Coordination – Cooperation – Capacity Development”
Category: 
Disaster Type related

ESOA represents all European satellite operators.

Processed on Oct 22nd 2010

The UN-SPIDER Knowledge Management & Information Dissemination System

Event: 
Fourth United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop on Disaster Management and Space Technology: “The 4C – Challenge: Communication – Coordination – Cooperation – Capacity Development”

Demo on the Space Application Matrix and geoinformation for disaster and risk management e.g. examples and best practices.

Processed on Oct 22nd 2010

The Earth Observation and GIS communities fighting the climate crisis

Event: 
Fourth United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop on Disaster Management and Space Technology: “The 4C – Challenge: Communication – Coordination – Cooperation – Capacity Development”
Category: 
Human Aspects related

The Planet Action Initiative: supporting projects addressing climate change issues and related disaster risk reduction and management.

Processed on Oct 22nd 2010

Policy perspectives for the use of satellite applications in Africa

Event: 
Fourth United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop on Disaster Management and Space Technology: “The 4C – Challenge: Communication – Coordination – Cooperation – Capacity Development”
Category: 
Human Aspects related

Presentation Overview
1.Background and Aim of the ESPI Study
2.Study Methodology
3.Roundtable and Workshops
4.International and European Goals and Strategies
5.Mapping of Activities and Actors

Processed on Oct 22nd 2010

Research Project e-Triage, IT-Supported Management of Mass Casualty Incidents

Event: 
Fourth United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop on Disaster Management and Space Technology: “The 4C – Challenge: Communication – Coordination – Cooperation – Capacity Development”
Category: 
Human Aspects related

Research Project e-Triage: IT-Supported Management of Mass Casualty Incidents.

e-Triage is a self-contained concept for electronic MCI management:
- Data collection
- Data management

Processed on Oct 22nd 2010

Mudslide in Peru

Processed on Oct 21st 2010
Disaster Information
Name: 
Mudslide in Peru
Region: 
Peru
Occurance Date: 
20/10/2010
latitude: 
-13.3042
longitude: 
-72.1167

Hundreds of families have been affected by mudslides triggered by heavy rains in Urubamba Province.

mudslide Peru

Landslide in Colombia

Processed on Sep 28th 2010
Disaster Information
Name: 
Landslide in Colombia
Region: 
Colombia
Occurance Date: 
27/09/2010
latitude: 
7.33486
longitude: 
-76.4319

A landslide buried about 30 people on a highway in northwestern Colombia caused by heavy rains in the midst of a deadly rainy season.

Landslide in Colombia

Landslide in Turkey

Processed on Sep 1st 2010
Disaster Information
Name: 
LS Land slide
Region: 
TUR Turkey
Occurance Date: 
27/08/2010
latitude: 
41.9318
longitude: 
34.3082

Eleven people were killed when landslides caused by torrential rain razed several homes in a town in northeast Turkey, the state-run Anatolian news agency said on Friday.

Landslide in Turkey

Landslide in China

Processed on Aug 9th 2010
Disaster Information
Name: 
Landslide in China
Region: 
Gansu Province, China
Occurance Date: 
08/08/2010
latitude: 
36.0593
longitude: 
103.826

Mudslides engulfed a town in northwest China on 8 August 2010, killing nearly 100 people and leaving perhaps 2,000 residents missing.

Landslide in China