Dear readers,
We're glad to share with you the August 2019 UN-SPIDER Monthly Updates.
We would like to make use of this occasion to remind you that self-funded applicants can apply until 18 October to participate in our UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference “Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management in Africa: Challenges, Applications, Partnerships”. The event will take place 6-8 November 2019. The deadline to apply for those seeking funding has elapsed on 30 August.
Below the updates, you'll also find an events calendar with upcoming conferences, workshops and seminars organized by the community.
Enjoy the read!
UN-SPIDER at a glance
Timely and reliable information about precipitation, soil moisture and vegetation health provide essential insights for early detection of drought. Space-based information, which helps monitor these parameters, is a central data source for... Read more
News from the community
A new report warns that the Asia-Pacific region is not sufficiently prepared for a new climate reality marked by an intensification and changing geography of disaster risks that are becoming harder to predict. The “Asia-Pacific Disaster Report... Read more
Dengue fever is a viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes. “Today the disease is endemic in 141 countries, affecting 390 million people and with a global annual cost... Read more
“More than half of the world’s active volcanoes are not monitored instrumentally,” according to GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. Yet eruptions occur quite frequently, with up to 85 of the 1500 active volcanoes erupting each year, and can... Read more
In September 2018, the Indonesian island of Sulawesi was hit by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake. The impact, combined with the tsunami, landslides, and soil liquefaction that followed, “... claimed well over 2000 lives, destroyed homes,... Read more
Up-coming events
| Title | Organized by | City | Country | Date | Registration deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Call for Papers: 2nd International Academy of Astronautics Latin American Symposium on Small Satellites: Advanced Technologies and Distributed Systems |
Colomb Institute |
Buenos Aires | Argentina | 11/11/2019 to 15/11/2019 | 16/09/2019 |
| Forecasting and Communicating Water-Related Disasters in Africa |
Ensemble Framework For Flash Flood Forecasting |
02/10/2019 | 02/10/2019 | ||
| 14th Training Course on GIS for Disaster Risk Management |
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) |
Bangkok | Thailand | 04/11/2019 to 15/11/2019 | 04/10/2019 |
| UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference "Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management in Africa: Challenges, Applications, Partnerships" |
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) / UN-SPIDER and Centre for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL), University of Bonn. |
Bonn | Germany | 06/11/2019 to 08/11/2019 | 18/10/2019 |
| Echoes in Space: Introduction to Radar Remote Sensing |
ESA; EO College |
16/09/2019 to 21/10/2019 | 21/10/2019 | ||
| Disaster Risk Reduction Course (3 Day) |
RedR UK |
London | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 26/11/2019 to 28/11/2019 | 26/10/2019 |
| URISA 2019 Caribbean GIS Conference |
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) |
Port of Spain | Trinidad & Tobago | 18/11/2019 to 21/11/2019 | 08/11/2019 |
| New Sensor Highlight: ECOSTRESS |
NASA ARSET
|
20/11/2019 | 14/11/2019 | ||
| RUS Webinar – Watching a Typhoon from Space with Sentinel-1 |
RUS |
28/11/2019 | 27/11/2019 | ||
| Advanced Webinar: SAR for Disasters and Hydrological Applications |
NASA ARSET |
03/12/2019 to 05/12/2019 | 05/12/2019 | ||
| Copernicus & Artificial Intelligence |
European Commission |
Brussels | Belgium | 28/01/2020 | 28/01/2020 |
| GEO information in disaster situations |
University of Copenhagen |
Copenhagen | Denmark | 20/04/2020 to 07/05/2020 | 01/02/2020 |
| Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment |
The Organizing Committee of the RSCy2020 |
Paphos | Cyprus | 16/03/2020 to 18/03/2020 | 07/02/2020 |
| Twenty-fifth Post Graduate Course in Remote Sensing & Geographic Information System |
Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific |
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Indian Space Research Organization Department of Space, | India | 01/07/2020 to 31/03/2021 | 28/02/2020 |
| Twelfth Post Graduate Diploma Course in Space and Atmospheric Science (SAS-12) |
Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and Pacific (CSSTEAP) |
Ahmedabad | India | 01/08/2020 to 30/04/2021 | 02/03/2020 |
| Twelfth Post Graduate Course in Satellite Meteorology and Global Climate |
Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTEAP) |
Ahmedabad | India | 01/08/2020 to 30/04/2021 | 02/03/2020 |
| Rapid Landslide Detection with Sentinel-1 |
RUS |
31/03/2020 | 31/03/2020 | ||
| GISTAM 2020 - 6th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management |
Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Controls and Communications |
07/05/2020 to 09/05/2020 | 01/04/2020 | ||
| Cartografía global de áreas quemadas mediante teledetección: fortalezas y limitaciones |
RedLaTIF |
08/04/2020 | 08/04/2020 | ||
| Pollution monitoring over Italy with Sentinel-5P |
RUS |
16/04/2020 | 15/04/2020 |
Twitter
