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Participants at the virtual expert meeting. Image: UNOOSA.
Mon Sep 28 2020
UN-SPIDER conducts virtual expert meeting for Latin America
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IWMI staff receiving the GeoSpatial World Excellence Award 2020. Image: IWMI.
Sun Sep 27 2020
IWMI wins award for innovative space-based drought monitoring work
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Screenshot of the Earth Map platform.
Fri Sep 18 2020
Google and FAO develop web-based tool to facilitate big data access
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the SAOCOM 1B satellite. Image: Manuel Mazzanti/CONAE
Mon Sep 14 2020
CONAE successfully launches SAOCOM 1B satellite
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Screenshot of the FAO Hand-in-Hand geospatial platform.
Wed Sep 9 2020
New FAO geospatial data platform to strengthen food and agriculture sectors
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Tropical cyclone Fani over the eastern coast of India on 2 May 2019. Image: NASA.
Thu Aug 20 2020
CRED publishes 2019 disaster statistics
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Floods in Bangladesh in 2019. Image: UN Women Asia and the Pacific.
Wed Aug 19 2020
ICIMOD supports disaster management with streamflow prediction and flood mapping
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Report cover.
Thu Aug 13 2020
Aerospace Information Research Institute of China tracks locust swarm dynamics...
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Areas flooded and damaged following cyclone Idai, northwest of Beira. Image: European Union/Christian Jepsen.
Mon Aug 10 2020
UN-SPIDER and UFSM of Brazil deliver webinar on flood mapping and drought...
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Field Work on Ogunpa flood plain Ibadan, Nigeria. Image: GMES.
Mon Aug 10 2020
CSSTE creates data bank for flood events in West Africa
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Sentinel 3. Image: ESA.
Fri Jul 31 2020
ESA project focuses on merging satellite data for water management and drought...
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Central-pivot agricultural fields along the Orange River in South Africa. Image: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016), processed by ESA.
Wed Jul 29 2020
Funding collective issues RFP for labeled agricultural datasets to support ML...
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Screenshot of visualizing CO emissions from forest fires in Honduras using data from the Sentinel-5P satellite and Sentinel Hub EO Browser.
Mon Jul 27 2020
UN-SPIDER and CEPREDENAC raise awareness about space-based products for...
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Report cover page. Image: UNESCAP.
Thu Jul 23 2020
UNESCAP publishes report on protecting the most vulnerable from climate...
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Image: UNFPA.
Tue Jul 21 2020
Satellite data supports UN anticipatory humanitarian action in Bangladesh
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Image: ESA.
Mon Jul 6 2020
ESA releases call for Earth Explorer 11 mission ideas
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UNOOSA Annual Report 2019.
Thu Jun 25 2020
UNOOSA releases 2019 Annual Report
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Federal University of Santa Maria Logo. Image: University of Santa Maria.
Wed Jun 17 2020
Federal University of Santa Maria joins network of UN-SPIDER Regional Support...
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Global 3D model of urban areas, generated using TanDEM-X Satellite data. Sophisticated AI procedures are used. Image: DLR/ TUM.
Tue Jun 16 2020
TUM and DLR launch Future Lab for Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation
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Satellite image over the eastern part of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh. Image: European Space Agency.
Tue Jun 9 2020
ICIMOD maps floods following Cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh to support response
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the fires over Borneo on 13 September 2019. Image: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
Mon Jun 8 2020
UN-SPIDER conduct webinar on role of satellites for forest fire management
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