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Collapsed building after the Kumamoto earthquake, Japan. Photo: Hyolee2/CC BY-SA 3.0
12 Mar 2018
Study highlights uses of LiDAR for earthquake damage assessments
Hurricane Irma Haiti September 2017
9 Mar 2018
UNOOSA activation privileges for International Charter augmented to include national disaster risk management agencies
Image of Hurricane Joaquin over the Atlantic Ocean north of Bermuda taken by GOES East on October 5, 2015.
8 Mar 2018
Satellite technology improves tracking of hurricane wind speed
8 Mar 2018
Disaster Management Center of Sri Lanka becomes Authorized User of International Charter
Wildfire in California in October 2017
5 Mar 2018
New NOAA satellite aims to better predict severe weather, save lives
1 Mar 2018
New Spanish Earth observation satellite launched
MOBILISE workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
27 Feb 2018
UN-SPIDER participates in MOBILISE event in Colombo
Satellite image from the Naval Research Lab are overlaid with lightning strokes (shown as black circles) of Hurricane Mathew on 4 October 2016. Image: WWLLN-TC
23 Feb 2018
New tool combines lightning and satellite data to improve forecasts of tropical cyclones
Floods in Uttarakhand, India, in 2013.
22 Feb 2018
ISRO to support Indian state of Uttarakhand with satellite-based forecasting and monitoring
SARSAT
21 Feb 2018
Satellites aid in rescue of 275 lives in the United States of America in 2017

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