October 2010

UN-SPIDER News

• Fourth United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop
• SpaceAid supporting disaster response in Benin, Thailand, Philippines, and Myanmar
• UN-SPIDER at the 8th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) and the Garnet-E workshop
• UN-SPIDER and ADRC organize side event at the 4th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
• UN-SPIDER moderates thematic session at GMES User Forum
• New UN-SPIDER RSO established at the Disaster Risk Reduction Centre of the University of the West Indies

Community News

• Sentinel Asia covering ten disasters in seven countries
• International Charter Space and Major Disasters: delivering products for six countries
• First call for papers for the GI_Forum 2011
• GSDI12 World Conference “Realising Spatially Enabled Societies”
• RP supports use of space technology to address climate change
• Sentinel-3: a new pair of glasses to view earth
• Geospatial databases and the evolving role of the surveyor
• DRR Project Portal for Asia and the Pacific

Conferences and Workshops supported by UN-SPIDER

• 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