April 2011

UN-SPIDER News

• SpaceAid resource page improves information and data flow related to floods in Namibia
• First Announcement: UN-SPIDER International Expert Meeting on Crowdsource Mapping for Preparedness and Emergency Response
• Double anniversary in 2011: 50 years from the first human space flight and 50th anniversary of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS)

Community News

• Sentinel Asia supports disaster response to floods in Kazakhstan
• International Charter activated for floods in Namibia and fires in Mexico
• SAFER supporting response to fires in Bulgaria and in Belgium
• Satellites could aid long-term disaster recovery
• Earth Observation in Malaria vector control and management
• SERVIR supports fire management system in Guatemala
• Chinese satellite seeks to predict earthquakes
• Astrium GEO-Information looks back on the Chernobyl disaster 25 years later with Earth Observation technologies
• Space Systems/Loral announces early delivery of Telstar 14R

Conferences and Workshops supported by UN-SPIDER
 

• Gi4DM 2011 – GeoInformation for Disaster Management, Antalya, 3-8 May 2011
• Space for Civil Protection Workshop, Vienna, 5-6 May 2011
• Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, 8-13 May 2011
• Global Space and Satellite Forum, Abu Dhabi, 9-11 May 2011
• GISCA 2011. Geoinformatics: Managing Environment, Resources and Risk, Almaty, 19-20 May 2011