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satellite night image of fires in Australia
Australia: Wildfires cover area as big as Melbourne
satellite image of floods in Bolivia
Bolivia: International Charter activated for rainfall, floods, and landslides
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Lake Tanganyika from space
Burundi: International Charter activated due to floods and landslides
ESA potential satellite to map fluorescence
Satellite Images: Detecting Vegetation Health through Fluorescence
Lansat-8 image
Landsat-8: First Year in Space
satellite image of the island of Phuket before the tsunami hit
ESCAP and GIZ: New cooperation to strengthen disaster early warning in Asia-Pacific
True color image of heavy snowfall in South Korea
South Korea: International Charter activated for severe snowfall
Satellite image of the Earth
Singapore: Developing first Earth Observation satellite
Satellite image of Zimbabwe, taken by Envisat
Zimbabwe: International Charter activated for floods
Estimation map of climate change induced increase in precipitation
Precipitation monitoring: On-ground research complements satellite accuracy
satellite image of snow covered UK
UK: International Charter activation due to ongoing struggle with floods
Satellite image shows floods in the Philippines
Philippines: Government develops disaster early warning system
INSAT 3D image of precipitation in India
INSAT 3D: First data and images available
Satellite image of coastal flooding
Simulation: Damages from Climate Change-related Coastal Flooding could rise
Temperature anomalies in Alaska in January 2014
Alaska: Satellites show land surface temperature anomalies
GOES-13 satellite captured this image of clouds over the Caribbean
The Caribbean: New Disaster Preparedness Action Plan
Floods in Bolivia seen from Space
Latin American parliament sets focus for resilience laws
4th Meeting of the UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices on 11 February 2013
Recommended Practices: Using Space Technologies for Disaster and Risk Management
Fires in West Africa
Fires in Africa captured by a NASA satellite
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon addressed the 1000 UN staff working in Bonn
UN Secretary General visits UN Bonn Campus
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