August 2010

UN-SPIDER News

•  SpaceAid support to flood relief in Pakistan
• UN-SPIDER strengthens Technical Advisory Support in the Philippines
• UNOOSA and JBGIS Publish Booklet on “Geoinformation for Disaster and Risk Management - Best Practices and Examples”

Community News

• Disasters covered by Sentinel Asia in August
• International Charter Space and Major Disasters activated five times in August
• SAFER activated for floods in Pakistan
• Flood mapping for Pakistan by the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
• Planet Action to support more projects
• China launches "Mapping Satellite-I"
• New maps of Central America for Risk Management
• FAO launches real time fire monitoring website

Conferences and Workshops

• 4th United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop on Disaster Management and Space Technology: “The 4C – Challenge: Communication – Coordination – Cooperation – Capacity Development”, Bonn, 12-14 October 2010
• Benefitting from Earth Observation - Bridging the Data Gap for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region; Kathmandu, Nepal, 4-6 October 2010
• The 4th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction: Incorporating space-based information and technologies into DRR and CCA; Incheon, Korea, 25-28 October 2010
• 8th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing and the Environment; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 25-29 October 2010
  Pacific GIS and RS User Conference; Suva, Fiji, 23-26 November 2010
• Gi4DM 2011 – GeoInformation for Disaster Management; Antalya, Turkey, 3-8 May 2011