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Hurricane Mitch approaching Honduras in 1998 (Image: NASA)
Honduras and Colombia share knowledge to reduce disaster risks
Flooding in Tanzania in 2010 (Image: NASA)
Tanzania: New agency for disaster risk reduction
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, captured by the Proba-V satellite in January 2015 (Image: ESA/VITO)
South Africa plans to launch Earth observation satellite in 2019
Forest cover in South America viewed on the Geo-Wiki platform (Image: IIASA/Geo-Wiki/Google Earth)
Mapping global forests in unprecedented detail
2014 Regional Winner Valencian Community (Spain) focused on a system for investigating the cause and origin of forest fires (Image: John McColgan)
European Satellite Navigation Competition 2015 launched
Damages caused by floods in North India (Image: European Commission)
International Charter activated for flooding in northern India
Ground track of BeiDou 2012 (Image: NASA/ Secretlondon)
China: launch of new-generation BeiDou navigation satellite
The two training programmes aim to strengthen the capacities of Bangladesh and Bhutan to effectively use satellite-based information for disaster risk reduction (Image: NASA)
UN-SPIDER to conduct two training programmes in Asia in April
Vegetation in savannas and shrublands helps to offset global deforestation (Image: CT Cooper)
Satellite-based research shows greener Earth despite deforestation
Launch of IRNSS-1D (Image: ISRO)
India successfully launches fourth regional navigation satellite
5 March satellite image of floods in province of Santa Fe (Image: CONAE)
Argentina: Satellite images support flood damage mitigation
The programme will provide data analytics for disaster response (Image: US Navy)
US and Japan to use Big Data for disaster management
Change in snow cover in analysed decades (Image: NASA)
Satellites show earlier snowmelt in Wyoming, USA
Animation of the rocket 3 min 29 sec after the launch (Image: ESA)
Two new Galileo satellites successfully launched
Artistic image of KOMPSAT-3A (Image: Hotaroo0521)
South Korean satellite KOMPSAT-3A launched
Representatives from 20 agencies engaged in disaster risk management shared their experiences
Nepal: ICIMOD conducts workshop about rapid response mapping
Bolivia: Recommended Practice by Ukraine RSO used in International Charter activation
Large thunderstorms cause rainfall increase (Image: Flickr/ Barto)
New study suggests large organised storms cause rainfall increase
Global Digital Elevation Model produced by ASTER (Image: NASA)
GFDRR and DFID: Challenge Fund to improve disaster risks assessment
Phlegraean Fields monitored by Sentinel-1 (Image: ESA)
How satellite radar can detect slight surface movements on Earth
Floods in Jakarta 2013 (Image: Arsonal/Wikipedia)
Indonesia: Fujitsu announces smartphone-based disaster information-sharing tool
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