In this issue:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
- Expert Meeting on Flood and Drought Risk Reduction concluded
- 57th COPUOS session: Outer Space for a sustainable Earth
- UN-SPIDER speaks at 57th session of COPUOS
- Technical Advisory Mission to Bhutan successfully concluded
- UN-SPIDER participates in IWG-SEM meeting
- UN-SPIDER participates in European Space Solutions Conference
- UN-SPIDER organizes pre-event to AMCDRR
- OOSA Director explores collaboration on Space issues in Geneva
- Technical Advisory Mission to Zambia successfully concluded
News from our Regional Support Offices
- NASDRA: "Made In Nigeria" Satellites
- Joint UN-SPIDER/ICIMOD International Training Programme on Multi-level Risk Profiling
- Algerian Space Agency tracks land use change with Alsat-2A
- IGAC: Monitoring Agricultural Crops with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
News from our Community
- EUMETSAT: Measuring the temperature of lava with satellites
- Google buys satellite image provider Skybox
- United States and Honduras to Test Disaster Response Software in Simulated Hurricane Scenario
- International Charter activated for floods in Argentina and Brazil
- Sri Lanka: NASA TRMM data reveals extraordinary flooding
- Russia: Launch of GLONASS-M55 satellite into orbit
- KazEOSat-2: Second Kazakh Earth Observation Satellite is in orbit
- First set of data from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission published
- AMCDRR: Bangkok declaration on disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific 2014
Upcoming events
- 14-15 July 2014, Geneva, Switzerland: First Session of the Preparatory Committee of the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
- 24-28 August 2014, Davos, Switzerland: 5th International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC)
- 18-23 September 2014, Beijing, China: United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Management "Multi-hazard Disaster Risk Assessment"
- 22-24 September 2014, Graz, Austria: United Nations/Austria Symposium on “Space Science and the United Nations”
