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Satellite image of flooding in Chile
Chile: International Charter activated due to tsunami
satellite image of the North-East Asia region
Cooperation between China, Korea and Japan on disaster data
Fires in Sumatra, Indonesia in March 2014 seen from Space.
Indonesia: Launch of advanced disaster monitoring system
Participants of the Expert Meeting on Early Warning Systems in El Salvador
El Salvador: UN-SPIDER and partners conduct Expert Meeting on Early Warning Systems
The study looks at global insured and un-insured losses from disasters
Global insured losses from disasters were USD 45 billion in 2013
Floods in Zambia in 2003 captured by NASA’s Terra satellite
Call for Experts: UN-SPIDER Technical Advisory Mission to Zambia
satellite image of floods in the Philippines
The Philippines: Government to complete flood hazard mapping in 2016
Identification of the reproduction areas of locust in the North-East of Mauritan
ASAL: Remote Sensing for locust infestation in Algeria and Mauritania
Sudan seen from Space by ESA's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer in 2004
Sudan: Connecting farmers with real-time flood management information
Map of rainfalls during Sandy
USA: New website with data on climate change effects and floods
New measurements method t suppliement flood warning systems
UCLA geographers create a new way to measure river flows
Satellite Photo from NASA and JAXA GPM satellite
GPM Core Observatory: First Images from NASA-JAXA Global Rain and Snowfall satellite
Internal Working Group of Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy of CIAF-IGAC (2013/201
IGAC: Development of a Spectral Library
Blue marble
NASA is launching its third global Space App challenge
Satellite image of typhoon hitting the Philippines
The Philippines: New disaster operations centre launched
Participants of the course “Mapping and Application of GPS” offered by CATHALAC
Mapping and Application of GPS: CATHALAC trains professionals
Vegetation map of Eastern Africa during the severe drought of 2011
RCMRD: East African Global Land Cover Workshop
The flooding is taking place in the state of Rodonia on the border with Bolivia
Heavy rain and floods in Brazil: International Charter activated
Satellite picture crop seeds
FAO launches Global Land Cover SHARE database
ALOS-2 be capable of observing day and night
Japan: Preparing for launch of ALOS-2
UN-SPIDER Beijing Head of Office Shirish Ravan and APSCO Secretary-General
UN-SPIDER and APSCO: Further cooperation in 2014
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