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UNDP and Tohoku University launched the "Global Centre for Disaster Statistics" at WCDRR (Image: UNISDR)
UNDP and Tohoku University launch Global Centre for Disaster Statistics
One of the key outcomes of the working session was the announcement of a global partnership comprised of UNOOSA and 15 partners.
WCDRR: A global partnership on Earth observation for disaster risk reduction
Panel of the WCDRR working session on early warning
UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER contributes to Early Warning Session at WCDRR
Within 24 hours, the HOT community more than doubled the amount of map data in OpenStreetMap (Image: HOT)
Crowdsource mapping assistance for cyclone-struck Vanuatu
Average sea surface temperature due to El Niño 2015 (Image: NOAA)
NOAA: Weak El Niño has arrived
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened the WCDRR on 14 March in Sendai, Japan (Image: UN Photo)
WCDRR opens in Sendai, Japan
First image from SMAP on Feb. 27/28, 2015 (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
First images of NASA's soil moisture mapper SMAP
UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER is supporting two courses in the Summer University 2015 of the Central European University in Budapest (Image: CEU)
UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER supports summer courses at Central European University
Satellite image of southern part of India (Image: NASA)
ISRO to launch IRNSS navigation satellite by end of March
Satellite picture of Vietnam (Image: Wikipedia)
International Charter activated for an oil spill off the coast of Viet Nam
The Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna (GBM) river basins and the Ganges-Brahmaputra (GB) delta as well as other river deltas
Bangladesh: Expanding the satellite-based flood warning system
One of the micro-satellites will be launched from the International Space Station (Image: NASA)
The Philippines will launch two micro-satellites
The Jaguari Reservoir near São Paulo in February 2015
Landsat-8 captures shrinking water reservoirs near São Paulo
Rwanda satellite map (Image: NASA)
Rwanda implements the first Land Use Mapping Portal in Africa
UNISDR head Wahlström urges world leaders to take action on disaster risk reduction
UNISDR: Climate change accounts for 87 percent of disasters worldwide
Typhoon approaching China (Image: NASA)
Chinese Gaofen-2 earth observation satellite comes into service
Satellite image of Sub-Saharan Africa (Image: NASA)
Satellite mapping to analyse rainfall impact in Africa
2013 Typhoon Haiyan in Philippines (Image: DFID/ Henry Donati)
Atlas of cities at risk from natural disasters published
2012 Blue Marble (Image: NASA)
Second Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Instrument will support Joint Polar Satellite System Mission
2010 flooding in Tennessee (Image: FEMA/ David Fine)
Global flood harm could triple by 2030
Screenshot of SIGNALERT crowdmapping app (Image: Signalert SARL)
Signalert: Crowdmapping app for disaster management
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