May 2011

UN-SPIDER News

• Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)
• The SPIDER Global Thematic Partnership active in the 3rd session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
• UN-SPIDER contributes to workshop on global environmental change and water-related diseases in Uzbekistan
• Advancing VALID at Gi4DM in Antalya
• UN-SPIDER seminar at GSSF, Abu Dhabi
• GDACS Stakeholder Meeting in Bergen
• UN-SPIDER at the Annual Central Asia GIS Conference GISCA 2011
• Technical Advisory Mission to Sudan brings together disaster management stakeholders and Remote Sensing experts
• UN-SPIDER represented at the International Conference on Emergency Management Technologies (ICEMT 2011), Hungary

Community News

• Sentinel Asia supports disaster response to floods in Indonesia
• International Charter activated for flood in Colombia and wildfires in Canada
• SAFER supporting response to fires in the Netherlands and earthquake in Spain, and GMES User Newsletter online
• UK takes the helm of International Charter
• International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM 2011): registration opened
• ESA and the World Bank join forces
• Satellite observations show potential to improve ash cloud forecasts
• DubaiSat-2 to be an improvement on predecessor

Conferences and Workshops organized or supported by UN-SPIDER

• UN-SPIDER International Expert Meetings: Crowdsource Mapping for Preparedness and Emergency Response
• Vienna, 5-6 July 2011
• PAIGH Crisis Support Workshop, Panama, 13-14 June 2011
• ESCAP Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction, Second Session, Bangkok, 29 June-1 July 2011