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SAOCOM 1A launching Credit: NASAspaceflight.com
CONAE launches new SAOCOM 1 satellite for effective Earth observation and disaster management
Image of snow across northern Mongolia in January 2017 captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite. Image: Nasa Earth Observatory
Satellite-based system to monitor droughts/dzuds handed over to Mongolia
Copernicus Emergency Management Service (© 2018 European Union), [EMSR317] Palu - Indonesia, Grading Map.
Emergency mechanisms provide mapping products for Indonesia earthquake and tsunami
Children outside a UNICEF-supported water point in a drought-affected region in Ethiopia. Image: UNICEF Ethiopia/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Famine Action Mechanism uses data including satellite imagery to predict worsening food security
UNISPACE NANO SATELLITE ASSEMBLY & TRAINING BY ISRO, Image Credits: ISRO
ISRO launches programme offering training opportunities in nanosatellite development
An image of Niamey from a drone. Image: Drone Africa Services.
World Bank project maps and models flood risk in Niger
Image: Screenshot from EO college SAR Turorial
EO College publishes new SAR Tomography tutorial
PSLV-C42 launching platform. Image: ISRO.
ISRO launches two UK radar satellites for disaster management
SINI launch ceremony.
National Emergency Commission of Dominican Republic launches Geospatial Information Portal
Screenshot of "The state of food security and nutrition in the world" by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Climate risk monitoring and early warning systems to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate variability
Screenshot of the Australian Monitoring System web portal
New Australian online mapping tool to help detect flammable vegetation
Logo of the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters”
International Charter activated for Typhoon Mangkhut in Philippines
China launches new satellite to forecast and monitor marine disasters
UN-SPIDER conducts Technical Advisory Mission follow-up in Viet Nam
ESA’s Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 22 August. Image: ESA
Aeolus launched and produces its first data for improving weather forecasting for disaster management
Flooding in Japan during July 2018 captured by PlanetScope. Image courtesy of Planet Labs, Inc CC-NC-BY
Planet joins International Charter “Space and Major Disasters” as approved data contributor
UN-SPIDER and SENACYT conduct seminar during CONVERCIENCIA 2018
Integrated Geospatial Information Framework report published in July 2018
New UN report on geospatial data for decision-making
Dry soil
Spaced-based drought indicators and dry spell in Germany
Typhoon Bebinca captured by NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite as it approaches Viet Nam on 14 Aug. Image:NASA/NOAA Worldview
UNOOSA requests activation of International Charter for Typhoon Bebinca in Viet Nam
Logo of the International Charter "Space and Major Disasters"
International Charter activation for floods in Venezuela and India
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