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Image courtesy of the European Space Agency (ESA) of a sandstorm over the Persian Gulf in 2008.
30 Aug 2016
United Nations/Islamic Republic of Iran Workshop on the Use of Space Technology for Dust Storm and Drought Monitoring in the Middle East Region
Image courtesy of the USGS, ShakeMap.
26 Aug 2016
Strong Earthquake in the Union of Myanmar
Image courtesy of USGS, ShakeMap.
25 Aug 2016
Deadly Earthquake in Central Italy
First African Drought Conference in Namibia
25 Aug 2016
UN-SPIDER present at the First African Drought Conference in Namibia
FOSS4G Conference Bonn 2016 - Side Event on the premises of UN-SPIDER
25 Aug 2016
UN-SPIDER hosts the FOSS4G side event on Collaborative Information Management for Emergency Response
Image courtesy ofNASA by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption and image cropping by Adam Voiland.
23 Aug 2016
Brown sediments poured into Lake Pontchartrain, United-States
Image courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory by Joshua Stevens, using data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Caption by Adam Voiland.
19 Aug 2016
Fire occurs in California, United States of America
Image courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens, using IMERG data provided courtesy of the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Science Team’s Precipitation Processing System (PPS). Caption by Kathryn Hansen.
16 Aug 2016
Heavy rainfall triggers extreme floods in Louisiana, United States
16 Aug 2016
UNCCD Conference “Enhancing resilience to drought events on the African Continent”
Republic of Portugal, image courtesy of NASA by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Adam Voiland.
12 Aug 2016
Fire in the west coast of the Republic of Portugal and South of France

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