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Simonetta Di Pippo, Director of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
12 Jun 2014
57th COPUOS session opened: Outer Space for a sustainable Earth
Operators and students  test GeoSHAPE in the simulated response to a hurricane
11 Jun 2014
United States and Honduras to Test Disaster Response Software in Simulated Hurricane Scenario
Google wants to buy Skybox
11 Jun 2014
Google buys satellite image provider Skybox
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility launch MACRI on 9 June 2014
10 Jun 2014
NASA: Launch of the new Mid-Atlantic Coastal Resiliency Institute
Participants of the training programme multi-level risk profiling , UN-SPIDER's expert, Mr Shirish Ravan, holding a lecture
9 Jun 2014
Joint UN-SPIDER/ICIMOD International Training Programme on Multi-level Risk Profiling
Nyiragongo's temperature measured thanks to Meteosat satellite
9 Jun 2014
EUMETSAT: Measuring the temperature of lava with satellites
Welcoming remarks were delivered by UNOOSA's director Ms Simonetta Di Pippo , More than 60 international experts from Asia, Africa, America and Europe met
5 Jun 2014
Expert Meeting on Flood and Drought Risk Reduction concluded
Russian Ministry started recovery in flood-hit areas in Siberia
4 Jun 2014
Siberia: Recovery of flood-hit areas has begun
Nigeriasat-X
3 Jun 2014
"Made In Nigeria" Satellites: Coming Soon
Birds eye view of London acquired by the UK-DMC-2 satellite in November 2011
3 Jun 2014
IGAC: Technical Cooperation meeting on Disaster Monitoring Constellation

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