March 2011

UN-SPIDER News

• SpaceAid resource pages set up to help improve information and data-flow related to the Japan earthquake disaster and for floods in Namibia
• SPIDER Thematic Partnership LAC: Using the 3D-UDOP geo-viewer to enhance situational awareness concerning seismic risk in Guatemala
• SPIDER Thematic Partnership LAC: Second Session of the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction of the Americas
• Training for use of Disaster Management Tool at German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• ENHANS Pretoria workshop recommendations
• Closer collaboration with Arab countries: UN-SPIDER gives training course in Riyadh and attends meetings in Jeddah
• Second NIDM/UN-SPIDER workshop in New Delhi
• Establishment of a UNGIWG Task Group on Geospatial Information for Humanitarian and Emergency Response

Community News

• SUPARCO: Workshop on “Developing Capacity for Resilience to Water-related Disasters in Pakistan through Space Applications and Flood Risk Management”
• Pakistan: Upgrading the National Monsoon Contingency Plan together with the UN
• Sentinel Asia contributed to response to earthquakes in Japan and Myanmar and to floods in Thailand
• International Charter activated for earthquake in Japan
• Call for papers at the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Space Technologies (ICAST)
• Disaster Management – Special issue of Earthzine
• International ICT - disaster response agreement
• Information technology opens new routes for emergency disaster relief – UN report
• Satellite system could provide earlier earthquake warnings
• Satellite applications: E-health

Conferences and Workshops supported by UN-SPIDER

• Gi4DM 2011 – GeoInformation for Disaster Management; Antalya, Turkey, 3-8 May 2011
• Space for Civil Protection Workshop, Vienna, 5-6 May 2011
• Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, 8-13 May 2011
• GISCA 2011. Geoinformatics: Managing Environment, Resources and Risk, Almaty, 19-20 May 2011