In this issue:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
- Call for Experts: Join our Technical Advisory Mission to Kenya
- Ghana: UN-SPIDER conducts Technical Advisory Mission
News from our Regional Support Offices
- Russia and Ukraine cooperate on disaster management
- Himalayan Region: ICIMOD holds 44th Board Meeting
- Asian Disaster Reduction Center publishes Natural Disasters Data Book 2012
- Pakistan: SUPARCO supports city planning using satellites
News from our Community
- Indian Ocean islands cooperate to establish disaster loss databases
- Seen from Space: Tropical cyclone and typhoon season 2013
- ESA: Proba-V ready for operations
- Sri Lanka: Approval for spatial data infrastructure implementation
- New global agreement on disaster risk expected in 2015
- International Charter activated twice in December 2013
- Bolivia celebrates launch of first satellite
- Gulf Stream: Measuring sea surface temperatures with satellites
- Weather Forecasting: USA and Japan to launch precipitation satellite in February
- El Salvador: Eruption of Chaparrastique Volcano
Upcoming events
- 13 January 2014, Geneva, Switzerland: Natural Disaster Mitigation and Earth Observations: a GEOSS perspective
- 20-24 January 2014, Karachi, Pakistan: Digital Image Processing using ERDAS Imagine
- 5-7 March 2014, Bucharest, Romania: 9th Conference on Image Information Mining: The Sentinels Era
- 1-4 April 2014, Rabat, Morocco: 3rd International Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water Management
