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GAR15 provides a review of 10 years of disaster risk reduction
2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR15) launched
Satellite image of Lake Balaton (Image: Viktor Tóth)
Water quality of European lake measured from space
General Assembly Hall (Image: Pine/Flickr)
United Nations General Assembly adopts resolution on Global Geospatial Information Management
The e-tutorial is designed for delegates and experts participating in the preparatory process of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
UNITAR offers e-tutorial for Post-2015 Disaster Risk Reduction Framework
Spotlights Heat Map based on MODIS images for February 2015
CONAE provides maps to fight fires in the Andes
Yvette storm in Southeast Europe and Balkans in 2014 (Image: NASA)
e-GEOS will provide satellite maps for Copernicus emergency management
GRASS GIS Software (Image: GRASS Development Team)
New version of GRASS GIS available now
Satellite image of Volcan Villarrica (Image: NASA)
International Charter activated for a volcanic eruption in Chile
Sentinel-2 (Image: ESA/S. Corvaja)
Sentinel-2: Europe's new Earth Observation satellite ready
Training of Teachers of Pune University on Disaster Management (Image: Kumarrakajee/Wikipedia)
22 Asian countries agree on common disaster management procedures
Global precipitation map (Image: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
NASA releases first global rainfall and snowfall map
Three panels from the National Land Cover Database depicting land cover change in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Alaska, from 2001 to 2011
USGS: New land cover data released for Alaska
True-color MODIS image of Bolivia (Image: NASA)
International Charter activated for floods in Bolivia
UNOOSA and DigitalGlobe have signed a memorandum of understand on satellite imagery
UNOOSA and DigitalGlobe sign agreement to collaborate on satellite imagery
Sentinel-2A's Laser Terminal (Image: ESA)
European Data Relay System services for Copernicus
DLR and the United Nations University agreed on closer cooperation
United Nations University and German Aerospace Center strengthen collaboration
UNOOSA contributes to CEOS/ESA publication on Earth observation for disaster risk reduction
1780 people in the Austrian Alps had to be rescued last year
New system uses satellites to support rescue missions in the Alps
Floods in Sri Lanka (Image: Flickr/Ranveig)
IWMI: Low-cost weather stations to help Sri Lanka prepare for floods
Flooding of the Mississippi river in 2011 (Image: NASA)
Call for expressions of interest: UN-SPIDER capacity building programme in USA
UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal now available in French
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