In this issue:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
- UN-SPIDER and IGAC conducted a Regional Expert Meeting in Colombia
- Agreement between UNOOSA and the Swiss Government
- UN-SPIDER and UNDP Bhutan office support efforts to manage landslide risk in Bhutan
- UN-SPIDER issues the Role of World Natural Heritage and Sites in Disaster Risk Reduction in a workshop in India
- UN-SPIDER meets students of 20th Post Graduate Diploma in Remote Sensing and GIS
Data Application of the Month
News from our Regional Support Offices
- ICIMOD: SERVIR project's success in combating forest fires
- IWMI project to enhance flood insurance for India's farmers
- Algerian Alsat-2A to determine the impact of forest fires
- CONAE: satellite data to mitigate flooding in Buenos Aires province
- Vulnerability Mapping Workshop held by RCMRD and PREPARED
News from our Community
- China to launch first remote sensing commercial satellite
- Geoscience Australia to develop a satellite system for bushfire monitoring
- 176 forecasting stations for monitoring floods in India
- WorldView-3 satellite sensor completes its first operating year
- NASA DEVELOP's Virtual Poster Session for summer 2015
- Upcoming first release of the SMAP data
- Free access to X-Band satellite data for Canadian institutions
- Research warns about the need to improve rainfall satellite portfolio
- Satelite observations used to measure how much fires pollute the atmosphere
- Mexico to launch Morelos 3 satellite to support disaster relief
- Russia to develop an Earth observation system for Iran
- Earth observation satellite to be developed by Nasa and ISRO
- International Charter activated five times in August 2015
Upcoming events
- Apply now! 14-16 September 2015, Beijing, China: United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Management - “A consolidating role in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: 2015-2030”
- 17-22 September 2015, Beijing, China: International Training programme "Earth observation technologies for earthquake damage and loss assessment"
- 12-16 October 2015, Pyeongchang, Korea: 6th International Wildland Fire Conference (IWFC-2015)
