UN-SPIDER Newsletter September 2010

In this issue:

SpaceAid, Case Study, Interview...

SpaceAid

• Pakistan: space-based information at the service of relief operations

Outreach

• Working towards a Plan of Action for Africa: UN-SPIDER Regional Workshop in Addis Ababa
• UN-SPIDER meeting with National Disaster Coordinating Council in Philippines
• JBGIS and UNOOSA publish “Geoinformation for Disaster and Risk Management - Best Practices and Examples”

Network

• RCMRD in Nairobi establishes ninth Regional Support Office

Interview

• with Dr. Iván Darío Gómez Guzmán, Director General of the Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute and Executive Secretary of the Colombian Space Commission

Case Study

• Flood monitoring by Ukraine Space Research Institute