In this issue:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
- UN-SPIDER supports APSCO Training course on Earthquake Monitoring
- International Meeting of Crowdsource Mapping successfully concluded
- Typhoon Bopha: UN-SPIDER facilitates activation of Charter
News from our Regional Support Offices
- SUPARCO/FAO issue study on rapid crop damage assessment in Pakistan in 2012
- International Workshop on flood risk mapping using spatial technologies
- Károly Róbert University College establishes new Remote Sensing Laboratory
- Hyperspectral data plays important role in environmental monitoring
News from our Community
- Hurricane Sandy: Polar-orbiting satellites were key in pinpointing landfall
- Cyclone Evan: International Charter activated three times
- UNOOSA/Japan establish Fellowship Programme on Nano-Satellite Technologies
- Galileo: First navigation signals transmitted by FM3
- Japan to host World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
- Floods the most frequent disaster in Asia in 2012
Upcoming events
- 28 January-2 February 2013: Application Mapping Techniques and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Landscape Interpretation and Representation
- 6-8 February 2013: International Interdisciplinary Conference on Geo- and Environmental Information and Communication
- 11-15 March 2013: United Nations/Pakistan International Workshop on Integrated Use of Space Technologies for Food and Water Security
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