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Fig. 1. Winter wheat yield forecasts for Ukraine for 2013 as of 08 May 2013.
3 Jun 2013
Ukraine: Earth Observation Data for Agriculture Monitoring and Forecasting
The study looks at eight countries in the Asia-Pacific
31 May 2013
Study: Broadband Communication for Disaster Relief
Testing the flood early warning system
30 May 2013
India: Wireless Flood Early Warning Systems
Map showing variation in earthquake intensity
28 May 2013
Pakistan: SUPARCO generates Earthquake Impact Area Maps
Rebuilding after the floods
27 May 2013
Nigeria: Mapping Vulnerable Flood Areas
Fishermen in the Philippines
27 May 2013
Philippines: Adoption of Indonesia's Open Source Disaster Mitigation Tool
Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Martin Dahi
24 May 2013
Japan to host World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015
2012 Survey on the Use of Satellite Data
23 May 2013
WMO: 2012 Survey on the Use of Satellite data published
Bangladesh: Capacity Building on Space Technologies
22 May 2013
Bangladesh: Capacity Building on Space Technologies for Floods
Tsunami Early Warning improved by GPS measurements
21 May 2013
Tsunamis: GPS could improve early warnings says new study

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