Dear readers,
We're glad to share with you the April 2020 UN-SPIDER Monthly Updates, and would like to make you aware of an upcoming webinar on space applications to support global health, including to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The "Space4Health" webinar will be hosted by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) on 14 May at 10-11.30am and 4-5.30pm Vienna, Austria time (UTC+2). Further details and information about how to register are available on the UNOOSA website.
In case you are interested in learning more about how space applications help address the COVID-19 outbreak, make sure to visit the repository of examples that we have created on our Knowledge Portal. You can submit other examples to us for inclusion on the page using this form.
Enjoy the read!
News from the community
22/04/2020The Group of Earth Observations (GEO) and the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) have opened a call for expression of interest for the “Earth Observation Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Communities” programme. This programme aims to support UN Member States in sustainable urban… Read more
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21/04/2020A series of wildfires have been destroying forests and agricultural land near the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Due to concerns about the spread of these fires and the potential dispersion of smoke plumes and radioactive chemicals to nearby inhabited areas, the European Union’s Emergency… Read more
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16/04/2020On 1 April 1960, NASA sent the Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS-1) into space. TIROS-1 was developed during the 1950s and, after years of experimental programmes and attempts, became the world’s first weather satellite. Since weather satellites were a new technology at that time, the mission also… Read more
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15/04/2020The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released the JAXA Climate Rainfall Watch website to monitor extreme weather and climate over the world. The website provides hourly global measurements of precipitation as well as forecasts about heavy rainfall and drought in different temporal scales (daily, pentad,… Read more
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14/04/2020The Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA) and France’s Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) have signed a space cooperation agreement. The agreement provides a framework for both countries to collaborate on different topics, including satellite developments, exploration of outer space, space applications, R… Read more
03/04/2020The European Space Agency (ESA), in coordination with the European Commission, is launching a special edition of the Custom Script Contest, focused on the support of space assets during the COVID-19 crisis, managed by Euro Data Cube group. The contest is looking for remote sensing experts, machine learning scientists… Read more
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03/04/2020SERVIR, a joint program between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has partnered with relief organizations and the United Nations, including the Desert Locust Information System of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), to produce maps that could explain locust behavior. The… Read more
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