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Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Martin Dahi
Japan to host World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015
2012 Survey on the Use of Satellite Data
WMO: 2012 Survey on the Use of Satellite data published
Bangladesh: Capacity Building on Space Technologies
Bangladesh: Capacity Building on Space Technologies for Floods
Tsunami Early Warning improved by GPS measurements
Tsunamis: GPS could improve early warnings says new study
Ecuador: Pegaso Satellite
Ecuador: First images transmitted from Pegaso satellite
Flood area map created by the International Charter for Bangladesh in 2009
International Charter activated for Cyclone Mahasen in Bangladesh and Myanmar
Ban Ki-moon meets with Margareta Wahlström
Ban Ki-Moon: Economic losses from disaster out of control
NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of smoke and fires (2012)
Nepal: Remote Sensing Forest Fire Detection
Italy cloudless - seen from space
Cloudless Atlas: Building a perfect map of the world
UN-SPIDER's Remote Sensing expert Antje Hecheltjen during a training session.
Dominican Republic: Training on Space-Based Information for Floods
SENTINEL-2 satellite
ESA Study: The economic benefits of free satellite data
Satellite-detected areas of flood waters in the Wasit Governorate in eastern Ira
Iraq: UN-SPIDER network acquires satellite imagery for floods
USGS TNM Topographic Data viewed on a mobile device
USGS topographic data now available on mobile devices
The Biomass satellite
ESA: Next Earth Observation Satellite selected
Desertification affects 80 percent of arable land in Iraq
Iraq: Plans for satellite for environmental monitoring
Map of the 2012 locust infestations in Algeria created by ASAL
Official inauguration: UN-SPIDER Algeria Regional Support Office
Training the use of space technologies for disaster risk reduction.
Sudan: UN-SPIDER training on space-based technologies for disaster risk management
First edition of NOAA's newsletter "The Downlink"
NOAA launches bi-annual newsletter "The Downlink"
The red lines indicate areas where MODIS detected fires.
NASA satellites capture California wildfires
Vega satellite launcher is ready for lift off in Kourou, French Guiana
ESA: Live stream for Vega's second launch
Dubai seen from space
UAE announce DubaiSat-3 satellite mission
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