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Les Cayes, southern Haiti, 5 October 2016 after Hurricane Matthew has struck the area. Image: Jethro J. Sérémé / American Red Cross / IFRC.
Tue Sep 24 2019
IFRC says humanitarian need could double without urgent action on climate change
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FSSCat. Image: UPC.
Mon Sep 23 2019
New ESA satellite uses AI to make data delivery more efficient
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Participants at the UN-SPIDER Beijing conference.
Fri Sep 13 2019
UN-SPIDER Beijing conference explores role of space technologies in disaster...
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Participant during the training.
Thu Sep 12 2019
UN-SPIDER co-organizes International Charter training in Beijing
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International training at the Regional Centre for Space Science Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (RCSSTEAP) based at Beihang University, Beijing.
Thu Sep 12 2019
Beijing international training programme focuses on use of space-based...
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UN-SPIDER mission team at the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (ESSTI).
Wed Aug 28 2019
UN-SPIDER strengthens use of space data for drought early warning in Ethiopia
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Cover of the Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2019.
Mon Aug 26 2019
Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2019 highlights role of big data in meeting new...
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Tue Aug 20 2019
Dengue fever forecasting system makes use of Earth observation data
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A photo of Mt. Etna erupting on 30 October 2002, taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Image: NASA Earth Observatory/Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center.
Tue Aug 6 2019
German research team uses satellites and AI technology to monitor volcanoes
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This map shows the ground motion during the six months following the earthquake that struck the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi on 28 September 2018, and was obtained by processing Copernicus Sentinel-1 images acquired between October 2018 and April 2019. Image: ESA/contains Copernicus Sentinel data (2018–19), processed by Planetek Rheticus Service.
Tue Aug 6 2019
European Space Agency and Asian Development Bank help Indonesia with rebuilding...
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A Sentinel-2 false colour image showing active fires in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Image: DLR/ZKI.
Thu Jul 25 2019
DLR supports efforts to fight forest fires in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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Mission team with the director and staff of the Department of Civil Protection and other organizations. Image: DPC.
Tue Jul 23 2019
Space-based data in emergency response at centre of UN-SPIDER Institutional...
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The above map shows the distribution of women of reproductive age (ages 18-49) spread across Tanzania, drawn from a combination of census data and satellite imagery. Image: Facebook.
Tue Jul 16 2019
Facebook expands its population density maps to the Asia-Pacific region
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Damage from Hurricane Maria, which struck the island country of Dominica in 2017. Image: Tanya Holden/UK Department for International Development (DFID).
Fri Jul 12 2019
IMF releases report on building disaster resilience in small and low-income...
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A satellite view of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Italy prior to its collapse in August 2018. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Google.
Mon Jul 8 2019
Study discusses use of space technology for detecting infrastructure instability
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Hurricane Florence (2018). Image: NASA Earth Observatory.
Thu Jul 4 2019
Tropical Cyclones stalling along the North Atlantic coast lead to more rain in...
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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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