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Modeled catchment mean annual loss. For clarity, only catchments with a mean annual loss of >$1.5 million have been plotted. Image: Quinn, N., Bates, P. D., Neal, J., Smith, A., Wing, O., Sampson, C., et al. ( 2019).
Thu Jul 4 2019
Recent study presents new assessment method for rare floods risks
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Damage from a 7.4 earthquake and a tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on 28 September 2018. Image: European Union/Pierre Prakash/Flickr.
Mon Jul 1 2019
Flooding affected more people in 2018 than any other disaster type report shows
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FV3: Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere Dynamical Core
Thu Jun 27 2019
NOAA's upgrade of its Global Forecast System expected to enhance weather...
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Cover of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) 2018 Annual Report. Image: UNOOSA.
Fri Jun 21 2019
UNOOSA launches 2018 Annual Report
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An artistic representation of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission. Image: Canadian Space Agency.
Fri Jun 21 2019
Canadian RADARSAT Constellation Mission to support disaster relief efforts
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A sandstorm over the Sahara desert seen by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from the International Space Station in 2014. Image: ESA/NASA.
Tue Jun 18 2019
Applications open for UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference “Space-based...
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Representatives of UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices and observer organizations..
Tue Jun 18 2019
9th annual meeting of UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices opens in Vienna
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H.E. Gerhard Küntzle, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations (Vienna); UNOOSA Director Ms. Simonetta Di Pippo; and Prof. Klaus Greve from the Centre for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL) at the University of Bonn.
Tue Jun 18 2019
UNOOSA signs cooperation agreement with the University of Bonn to help Member...
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Natural-colour Sentinel-2A image of Mexico City and surroundings. Image: Copernicus Sentinel data (2015)/ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
Thu Jun 6 2019
UN-SPIDER highlights role of Earth observation in understanding exposure of...
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Flooding in the Pak Kret area of Bangkok, Thailand in 2011. Image: Philip Roeland/Flickr.
Fri May 31 2019
Review article discusses using remote sensing-based proxies to improve urban...
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SuperMUC-NG, the supercomputer at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ). Image: Veronika Hohenegger/LRZ.
Fri May 31 2019
German Aerospace Centre and Leipniz Supercomputing Centre team up to improve...
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Ground deformation map of Pistoia in Tuscany. Using data acquired between 2014 and 2019 from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, the map shows subsidence in red and uplift in blue. Image: ESA/TRE ALTAMIRA.
Thu May 30 2019
Italy uses Sentinel-1 satellite data to monitor sinking ground surfaces
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Image showing the movement of the Lambert Glacier, with ice velocity vectors obtained by using RADARSAT Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the 2000 Antarctic Mapping Mission. Image: Canadian Space Agency/NASA/Ohio State University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Alaska SAR facility. Retrieved from NASA Earth Observatory.
Fri May 24 2019
Images from Canada’s first Earth observation satellite made available to the...
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Participants of the Second Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference (MHEWC-II). Image: WMO.
Thu May 23 2019
Second Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference calls for strengthening early...
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Tropical Cyclone Fani reaches the eastern coast of India on 2 May 2019.
Wed May 22 2019
Indian Space Research Organization launches satellite to support disaster...
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Living Planet Symposium 2019 in Milan, Italy. Image: ESA
Tue May 21 2019
Earth observation practitioners gather in Milan to discuss latest Copernicus...
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Mississippi River floods in April and May 2011.
Thu May 16 2019
New publication highlights innovation disaster risk reduction products and...
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Areas flooded and damaged following cyclone Idai, northwest of Beira.
Thu May 16 2019
Disasters threaten progress on sustainable development GAR19 warns
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Tropical Cyclone Fani in the Indian Ocean captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on 1 May 2019. Image: NASA.
Mon May 13 2019
Registrations open for United Nations International Conference on Space-based...
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“Space for U.S.”, disaster search
Wed May 8 2019
NASA web page shows Earth observation data impact on people lives
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The map depicts global temperature anomalies in 2018.
Mon May 6 2019
2015 to 2018 warmest years on record NASA satellite data shows
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