December 2010

UN-SPIDER News

• SpaceAid supporting earthquake response in Iran

UN-SPIDER in 2010

• Five new Regional Support Offices
• Technical Advisory Missions to seven countries
• Supporting disaster response through the SpaceAid Framework
• Outreach activities and capacity-building
• Knowledge Management and the Knowledge Portal

Community News

• Sentinel Asia observed floods in Sri Lanka
• International Charter Space and Major Disasters activated four times
• (in Spanish only) CATHALAC presenta avances del mapa centroamericano de cobertura y uso de la tierra
• South Africa's Satellite ´leads the way´; new Space Agency established
• Nigerian Government gains N44 million from sale of satellite images
• DST of South Africa moots Centres of Competence in optronics and Synthetic Aperture Radar
• China All Access develops emergency satellite mobile command centre system
• India catching up fast with latest technology to tackle disasters
• Geospatial World Forum 2011- 'Dimensions and Directions of Geospatial Industry´

Conferences and Workshops supported by UN-SPIDER

• 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment: “The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring”, Sydney, 10-15 April 2011
• Gi4DM 2011 – GeoInformation for Disaster Management; Antalya, Turkey, 3-8 May 2011