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Soil erosion due to droughts
New geospatial dataset helps assess early signs of drought risks worldwide
Western Ghats mountain range
Satellites detect multiple forest fires in India
International Charter activated for New Caledonia cyclone
European Commission signs Earth observation cooperation arrangements with Colombia, Chile and Brazil
Collapsed building after the Kumamoto earthquake, Japan. Photo: Hyolee2/CC BY-SA 3.0
Study highlights uses of LiDAR for earthquake damage assessments
Hurricane Irma Haiti September 2017
UNOOSA activation privileges for International Charter augmented to include national disaster risk management agencies
Disaster Management Center of Sri Lanka becomes Authorized User of International Charter
Image of Hurricane Joaquin over the Atlantic Ocean north of Bermuda taken by GOES East on October 5, 2015.
Satellite technology improves tracking of hurricane wind speed
Wildfire in California in October 2017
New NOAA satellite aims to better predict severe weather, save lives
New Spanish Earth observation satellite launched
MOBILISE workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
UN-SPIDER participates in MOBILISE event in Colombo
Satellite image from the Naval Research Lab are overlaid with lightning strokes (shown as black circles) of Hurricane Mathew on 4 October 2016. Image: WWLLN-TC
New tool combines lightning and satellite data to improve forecasts of tropical cyclones
Floods in Uttarakhand, India, in 2013.
ISRO to support Indian state of Uttarakhand with satellite-based forecasting and monitoring
SARSAT
Satellites aid in rescue of 275 lives in the United States of America in 2017
International Charter activated for Cyclone Gita in Tonga
New operating system bundles free and open SAR processing programs for easy installation
Port au Prince, Haiti, January 12, 2010
Earthquake early warning focus for new Chinese-Italian satellite
International Charter activated for floods in Argentina and Bolivia
Soyuz-2.1a lifts off from Vostochny Cosmodrome on 1 February.
Satellites to monitor emergency situations launched by Russian Federation
International satellite data aids France flooding analysis
UNESCO World Water Quality Portal
New UNESCO tool uses remote sensing data to monitor global water quality
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