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River Nile and its Delta hosting two of the biggest cities in Egypt
Earth Observation of night time lights for flood risk management
hurricane Sandy from Space
GPS: New technique to improve weather models
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) will cooperate with UNITAR
WMO and UNITAR join forces on climate services
Mayon Volcano in the Philippines in 2009
Philippines: Sensors for Volcano and Earthquake Early Warning
A Discrete Global Grid System represents the Earth with a tessellation of cells.
OGC announces new Discrete Global Grid Systems Standards Working Group
Flood delineation map for Gloucester, UK, created by Copernicus in February 2014
Copernicus: EU Parliament paves way for operational phase of Earth Observation Programme
The eruptions of Mount Sinabung are less violent now, but they are not over.
Sinabung Volcano: Detecting pyroclastic flow from space
Members of EIGEO during the training course
Dominican Republic: CONAE strengthens technical capacities of EIGEO
Mission team of the Kenya Technical Advisory Mission
UN-SPIDER Technical Advisory Mission to Kenya
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777
International Charter activated for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
satellite image fo the Earth
Crowdsource mapping in search for the Malaysian Airlines flight
satellite image of South China sea
Satellites could help locate missing Malaysian flight
Image from ISS of Doha
Qatar plans a digital archive for GIS data
satellite image of fires in Indonesia
Indonesia: Sumatra is covered with haze from ongoing fires
satellite image of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: New equipment to forecast disasters
Satellite imagery from SPOT satellites free available
France will release archived SPOT data to public
GSDI awards $2500 USD in cash and volunteer professional services
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association announces Small Grants Program
Deforestation in Peru detected by Landsat 8 in August 2013.
Peru: First National Forest Monitoring Maps released
The UK Environment Agency decide to release flood-related data
Open data: UK Environment Agency releases flood data to public
UN-SPIDER participates in 13th ASEAN Regional Forum Inter-Sessional Meeting on Disaster Relief
International Charter: New newsletter published
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