Amazônia-1 is the first Earth Observation satellite completely designed, integrated, tested and operated by Brazil. It features the optical Advanced Wide Field Imager (AWFI), with swath width 850 km and 60 m resolution, capturing images in 3 visible bands and 1 near-infrared (NIR) band. It has a high revisit period of 5 days, which is important for increasing the probability of capturing useful images over frequently overcast areas including the Amazon region. The data will be accessible to the scientific community, government agencies, and to users interested in a better understanding of the terrestrial environment. The Amazon mission is planned to have three remote sensing satellites: Amazonia-1, followed by Amazonia-1B and Amazonia-2.
Geophysical
Definition
A hazard originating from solid earth. This term is used interchangeably with the term geological hazard.
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SAM Satellite
Peru’s first Earth Observation satellite was commissioned by the Peruvian government for its national space agency, CONIDA (Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacial) in 2014, and constructed in a record time of less than 24 months. PerúSAT-1 features the very-high-resolution optical New AstroSat Optical Modular Instrument (NAOMI) imager designed and developed by Airbus Defence and Space. This silicon carbide optical instrument provides panchromatic images with 70 cm spatial resolution and multispectral images in up to 2 m spatial resolution. PerúSAT-1 is based on Airbus Defence and Space’s AstroBus-S platform, and captures up to 300 images covering an area of 63, 000 km2 per day.
Launch date:
16/09/2016
Data Source
NOAA OneStop was created as a pathfinder effort to provide enhanced collection and granule searching for only those datasets archived at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). The portal provides a user-orientated point of access to weather, climate, satellite, fisheries, coastal, geomagnetic, and ocean data.
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According to the latest issue of an annual disaster statistics report, floods were the deadliest type of disasters in 2019, followed by extreme temperature, while storms affected the highest number of people. Published by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), “Natural disasters 2019 - Now is the time to not give up” draws on data recorded in the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), which saw the addition of 396 disasters that affected a total of 95 million and caused $103 billion in economic losses around the world.
Accounting for 40 per cent of disaster events, Asia suffered the highest impact with 45 per cent of deaths and 74 per cent of total affected. India, which saw cyclone Fani cause destruction in 2019, was the country most affected... read more
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The major thrives of this congress will be discuss and develop an integrated Climate Resilience Ecosystem that will address Future Disaster Risk Reduction and Capacity Development of Vulnerable Communities for Sustainable & Inclusive Growth and Subsequently publish a White Paper that will be submitted to the Government of India and the State Government.
The Conference will discuss different topics, including:
- Application of GIS & Remote Sensing for Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction
- Costal Vulnerability and Adaption strategies
- Water Security and Risk Management
- Management of Solid Waste for Sustainable Development
- Climate and Carbon Financing
- Sustainability and Inclusive Growth
- Extreme weather Events
- Global Warming and Coastal Risks
- Multi hazard Early Warning Systems
- Water Resource Sustainability and Security
- Application of GIS& RS for... read more
GeoEarth-2020 welcomes colleagues from all branches of Geosciences and from many countries in the world to participate to the second edition of thw 'World Congress on Geology and Earth Science'. The Conference will enable the sharing of best practices in Geoscience as well as exploring the role of remote sensing in monitoring Earth processes and dynamics.
The topics of the Conference include:
- Environmental Geology,
- GIS, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Sciences,
- Marine Geosciences and Oceanography,
- Groundwater and Hydrology: Surface Hydrology/Surface Water,
- Rock Deformation and Structural Geology,
- Volcanology and Plate Tectonics,
- Earth, Ecology and Ecosystems,
- Soil Science and Conservation of Soil Biodiversity.
EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online (#shareEGU20) brings part of the activities of the EGU General Assembly 2020 online. Participants will join meetings, share their research and discuss with colleagues.
The event will include topics such as:
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology Volcanology
- Hydrological Sciences
- Natural Hazards
- Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences
- Ocean Sciences
- Planetary & Solar System Sciences
- Seismology
- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology & Palaeontology
- Soil System Sciences
- Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
- ... read more
