In this issue:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
- Mongolia: UN-SPIDER Technical Advisory Mission concluded
- New on the Knowledge Portal: Risks and Disasters
- Two new UN-SPIDER publications
News from our Regional Support Offices
- New on the Knowledge Portal: Recommended Practices
- IGAC: Agro-climatic Drought Risk Management using NDVI
- ICIMOD: Closer collaboration with Nepal Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment
News from our Community
- International Charter activated five times in August
- Turkey set to launch national satellite programme
- UN-GGIM endorses Global Geodetic Reference Frame
- WorldView-3 Satellite launched by DigitalGlobe
- Nigeria: Launch of National Digital Flood Model
- Discussing Disaster Risk: 5th International Disaster Risk Conference in Davos
- NASA: TRMM satellite moving towards end of mission
- Africa Geospatial Forum postponed due to Ebola outbreak
- Sweden: Unusually intense wildfires captured by satellite
- Japanese microsatellites begin transmission of images
- RADARSAT-2: Contract extended for India
Upcoming events
- 8-12 September 2014: High Impact Weather - Event Week 2014
- 15-17 September 2014, Beijing, China: United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Management "Multi-hazard Disaster Risk Assessment"
- 18-22 September 2013, Beijing, China: International training course on Drought Monitoring and Assessment using Space-based Information
- 8-9 January 2015, Uttar Pradesh, India: Second International Space Conference 2015
