The International Charter Space and Major Disasters has been activated for forest fires in China on 4 June.
Wildfires have broken out in the mountainous region of the northern Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. A prolonged period of high temperatures and dry conditions fuelled the forest fires, which have spread to over 5,000 hectares due to high winds.
Strong and changing winds have made firefighting treacherous and over 4,000 people have been deployed to tackle the fires.
This is event is available for participation on an ongoing basis
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The UN-SPIDER Beijing Office and the National Disaster Reduction Centre of China are jointly organising the “International training course on Drought Monitoring and Assessment using Space-based Information” from 18 to 22 September 2014 (back to back with the fourth UN-SPIDER Conference in Beijing, see above). The training is organised for the benefit of the countries supported by UN-SPIDER through its technical advisory support services.
From 4 to 8 November 2013, eight organizations in Mozambique were trained on “Disaster mapping using space technology”. UN-SPIDER and UNDP-Mozambique jointly organized this training workshop which covered various disaster-related topics in Mozambique, a country that every two to three years suffers from floods and every 4 to 7 years from a drought event.
From 21 to 22 October 2013, the UN-SPIDER Beijing office will organize an interactive training session in Beijing, China to strengthen the capacity of the National Disaster Reduction Centre of China (NDRCC) to effectively embed Space technologies in their activities. The training focused on disaster risk assessment (especially flood and drought), relief needs assessment, situation analysis, early warning systems, and international standards related to disaster prevention.
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