UN-SPIDER Updates January 2015

In this issue:

UN-SPIDER at a glance

• UN-SPIDER Beijing activities in 2015
• Call for expressions of interest: UN-SPIDER capacity building programme in USA
• UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER strengthens cooperation with United Arab Emirates

Data application of the month

• Vegetation indices

News from our Regional Support Offices

• ADRC: Regional Support Office activities in 2015

News from our Community

• Madagascar: International Charter activated for widespread floods
• Malaysia: New Flood Mitigation Research Centre
• Six Galileo navigation satellites to be launched in 2015
• New Latin America Geospatial Portal launched
• Four satellites will complete the constellation of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System in 2015
• NASA: New instrument to better understand climate change
• Azerbaijan to use satellite data for seismic monitoring
• NASA launches Soil Moisture Mapping Satellite
• Ghana: First Earth observation satellite to be developed and launched
• China: Meteorological satellite Fengyun-II 08 successfully launched

Upcoming events

• Apply now: United Nations/Germany International Conference on Earth Observation on 26-28 May 2015, Bonn, Germany
• 2-13 February 2015, Vienna, Austria: 52nd session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of COPUOS
• 14-18 March 2015, Sendai, Japan: UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction