In this issue:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
- UN-SPIDER newsletter: Space Technologies in the United Nations
- UN-SPIDER participates in 13th ASEAN Regional Forum Inter-Sessional Meeting on Disaster Relief
- Call for Experts: UN-SPIDER Technical Advisory Mission to Bhutan
- Knowledge Portal is now available in Spanish
- UN-SPIDER presents Knowledge Portal at COPUOS STSC
News from our Regional Support Offices
News from our Community
- International Charter: Space and Major Disasters activated seven times in February
- Israel: Own satellite to monitor crops from outer space
- Satellite technology to help fight Deforestation
- The Caribbean: EU support for Disaster Preparedness Action Plan
- India: First data and images from INSAT 3D available
- Singapore: Developing first Earth Observation satellite
- ESA: Phase-B of satcom platform Neosat signed
- Drought: Detecting Vegetation Health through Fluorescence
- Call for proposals: Free FORMOSAT-2 Satellite Imagery
- Mongolia: Space Technologies for drought and dzud monitoring and early warning
Upcoming events
- 1-4 April 2014, Rabat, Morocco: Third International Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water Management
- 15-16 April 2014, Yogyakarta, Indonesia: ASEAN Workshop on Development of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for utilisation of Space-based information during emergency response
- 26-30 May 2014, Kiev, Ukraine, Fourth International Conference on Earth Observations for sustainable Development and Security
- 1 August 2014 – 30 April 2015, Ahmedabad, India: CSSTEAP training course Ninth Post Graduate Diploma Course in Space and Atmospheric Science (SAS 9)
- 6-10 October 2014, Potsdam, Germany: Symposium on Service-Oriented Mapping 2014 "Geospatial Processing and Visualization"
