November 2010

UN-SPIDER News

• UN-SPIDER opens office in Beijing
• UN-SPIDER present in the 19th General Assembly of the International Civil Defence Organization
• Technical Advisory Mission in Guatemala finds well advanced use of GIS in the country
• UN-SPIDER participates in Sixth Space Conference of the Americas
• UN-SPIDER presented at IEEE- GRSS Administrative Committee Meeting
• Benefits of Space Application to Disaster Management: Presentation for the Vienna based Permanent Missions to International Organizations
• Technical Advisory support to Madagascar, the Comoros and Malawi
• UN-SPIDER attended the RCMRD 7^th Conference of Ministers

• International Charter Space and Major Disasters celebrating its 10^th anniversary with DLR's membership
• Sentinel Asia covering floods in Vietnam
• DLR held 2010 annual General Meeting and Science Show live
• SAFER produces HOT SPOT mapping (ERS-SAFER) and collaborates on Merapi Eruption project
• Survey on spatial data sharing in Rwanda
• Use of satellites to track Mt. Merapi eruption and know your snow
• Space Ministers emphasize priority to deliver Galileo and GMES
• GMES & Africa side event to the 3^rd Africa-EU Summit

• 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment: “The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring”, Sydney, 10-15 April 2011
• Gi4DM 2011 – GeoInformation for Disaster Management; Antalya, Turkey, 3-8 May 2011