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Nearly 50 government representatives and experts from 11 countries, 7 regional and international organizations and 14 research institutes attended the workshop
UN-SPIDER and partners conclude EAS and ASEAN workshops
Floods in the Fiji archipelago (Image: AusAID)
Geospatial information system for disaster management in Pacific Island countries
Sentinel 1A satellite (Image:ESA)
Sweden signs agreement to use Sentinel data
Temperature forecasts under different greenhouse emission scenarios.(Image: Wikipedia)
Detailed global climate change estimates released by NASA
Colombia, Ethiopia and Bangladesh will receive Esri's support to become more climate-resilient (Image: US Navy)
Esri to support developing countries enhancing their climate resilience
“Disaster Reporting” app is now freely available in Google Play (Image: ICIMOD)
ICIMOD: New app to improve disaster relief
Group photo of the workshop's participants (Image: RCMRD)
RCMRD: Stakeholder Workshop on the Use of MODIS Data for Early Warning
Global coverage satellites to monitor the quality of inland and coastal waters through the new EOMAP service (Image: NASA)
Quality of inland and coastal waters to be monitored using satellite data
Comparing surface deformation data through Envisat and Sentinel-1A data over Bay of Naples in Italy (Image: ESA)
Enhancing surface deformation mapping through Sentinel-1A
The IASON project aimed to implement Earth observation in the Black Sea and Mediterranean regions (Image: NASA)
IASON project concluded: Earth observation in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions
Launch of U.S.-French oceanography satellite Jason 3 postponed due to contamination (Image: NOAA)
Postponed launch of oceanography satellite Jason 3
Seventeen of the world’s most disaster-prone countries from Asia have been discussing how to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (Image: US Navy)
ISDR Asia partnership meeting to implement Sendai Framework
Volunteers are mapping earthquake-inducted landslides in Nepal (Image: NASA)
Scientist-volunteers map landslides from Nepal earthquakes
Pyxis provide precise weather forecasts (Image: US NOAA)
New satellite-based sensors deliver unprecedented weather forecasts
Sentinel-2A in the cleanroom at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (Image: ESA/F. Gascon)
Copernicus satellite Sentinel-2A ready for launch
Space Technologies for post-2015 development: New UN-SPIDER newsletter
Opencast mining image in the north-eastern of Antioquia, Colombia (Image: IGAC/CIAF)
IGAC: Monitoring mining areas in Colombia
Screenshot from OpenArialMap
OpenAerialMap: Rapid access to aerial imagery
Satellite image of UAE by DubaiSat-1 (Image: EIAST)
Space agencies from UAE and UK cooperate to develop mapping applications
NISAR: the NASA-ISRO SAR Mission (Image: NASA)
India and USA: Cooperation to monitor earth changes in high detail
The workshop is focusing on coastal hazard assessment
UN-SPIDER supports UNESCO-IOC workshop on coastal hazard assessment
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