The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), launched in to service a Regional Cooperative Mechanism on Drought Monitoring and Early Warning in Nanjing, China.
The Mechanism provides satellite products for general drought monitoring and higher resolution products for identified high drought risk areas, and assists its members in developing localized products and services for relevant decision making. Space capable countries in the region committed to provide satellite information based technical services through the Mechanism, to drought prone ESCAP member countries to help them achieve effective monitoring and early warning of drought events so that the Governments and relevant stakeholders will have more lead time to take measures in preventing drought hazards become major disasters.
For more information please visit:
http://www.unescap.org/idd/events/2010_Drought_Nanjing/
or contact:
Mr. Guoxiang Wu
ESCAP Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division
Tel: +66-2-288-1456
Email: wugu [at] un.org (wugu[at]un[dot]org)
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