Alerting vulnerable communities to extreme weather

Collaboration between researchers at the University of Leeds and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, will focus on providing effective warnings to vulnerable communities that are more likely to be impacted by extreme weather.

Scientists have been awarded £2 million to develop ways of alerting communities in South Africa, Zambia, and Mozambique to extreme weather. The project, a collaboration between researchers at the University of Leeds and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, will focus on providing effective warnings to vulnerable communities that are more likely to be impacted by extreme weather. This includes people living in informal settlements close to rivers and those with disabilities who require early warnings to protect themselves and their property.

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-science/news/article/5269/alerting-vulnerable-comm…
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Digital Public Goods for Disaster Management

Digital Public Goods

Digital public goods are key to achieving sustainable development, especially for low and middle-income countries. The Digital Public Goods Alliance, endorsed by the UN Secretary-General's Roadmap for Digital Cooperation, is a multi-stakeholder initiative that promotes and facilitates the discovery, development, use, and investment in digital public goods.

Open Data & Open Knowledge Workshop 2023

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Open Data & Open Knowledge Workshop 2023

The Data Working Group, together with the GEOSS Platform and the GEO Knowledge Hub teams, will host a two-day workshop on Open Data and Open Knowledge from June 15-16, 2023. The event will provide the GEO community with an opportunity to discuss technical advances, challenges, and solutions related to open knowledge practices. The event follows the endorsement of the GEO Statement on Open Knowledge in 2021 and seeks to empower all users to access and use open EO-based applications in the various engagement priorities and main conventions.

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06/15/2023, 12:00am - 06/16/2023, 12:00am
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Geneva
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Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

https://www.earthobservations.org/odok2023.php
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GEO Symposium 2023

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GEO Symposium 2023

The GEO Symposium 2023 is set to take place in person in Geneva on June 13-14, 2023, followed by the Open Data and Open Knowledge Workshop. This year's event marks a significant milestone for the global Earth observation community, as it will be the first in-person symposium since 2019.

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climate change
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06/13/2023, 12:00am - 06/14/2023, 12:00am
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Geneva
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Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

https://www.earthobservations.org/symposium2023.php
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UN-SPIDER/DLR/GloFAS/ZFL Workshop On Space Technologies for Flood Management

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Workshop On Space Technologies for Flood Management

The UN-SPIDER/ GloFAS / DLR / ZFL International Workshop: “Space technologies for flood management” aimed at contributing to an increased use of satellite technologies and novel processing techniques to respond to challenges posed by disasters. The International Training Workshop aimed:

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02/20/2023, 12:00am - 02/22/2023, 12:00am
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UN Campus
Bonn
Germany Regional Support Office
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UNOOSA / UN-SPIDER

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) / Copernicus EMS / European Commission

Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL) / University of Bonn

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Spanish Translation of Two Recommended Practices on Flood Mapping

Spanish Translation of Recommended Practices

UN-SPIDER is pleased to announce the official translation of two Recommended Practices previously available on the English version of the Knowledge Portal. These Recommended Practices on flood mapping can be found in the Spanish version of the Knowledge Portal, under "Asesoría" > "Prácticas Recomendadas".

https://www.un-spider.org/es/asesoria/practicas-recomendadas

Floods in Malawi

Malawi Floods 2022
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In the end of January 2022, Tropical Storm Ana caused severe floods in Madagascar, Malawi, and Mozambique.

UN-SPIDER supported Malawi’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) and the UN Resident Coordinator's Office in Malawi by creating flood delineation products based on Sentinel-1 data, using UN-SPIDER's recommended practices on radar-based flood mapping.

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The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) 2023 Hybrid Annual Conference

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south africa TIEMS 2023

The International Emergency Management Society 2023 Hybrid Annual Conference is taking place in September 11 - 15 in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The main topic for the 2023 Annual TIEMS Conference is "Crises, Emergencies and Disasters - a Continuum of Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century".

These are some of the sub-topics that will be discussed in the conference:

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Disaster Risk Reduction Workshop
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Rhodes University Campus
Makhanda / Grahamstown
South Africa

The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) South Africa Chapter

Rhodes Univeristy

Stenden South Africa

University of Žilina

Institute of Disaster Management of the National University of Public Service

https://www.tiems.info/index.php/tiems-2023-hybrid-annual-conference
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Virtual technical advisory support to Niger

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To continue strengthening the capacity of the General Directorate for Civil Protection of the Niger to use space-based information to respond to floods in the country, and at the request of the Director of the National Civil Protection Directorate of the Niger, UN-SPIDER carried out a second online training course on flood mapping with Sentinel-1 radar imagery in Google Earth Engine. A total of 36 participants from the Directorate, the National Civil Protection Academy and other government agencies, as well as from the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator, took part in the training course, which was held on 11 and 12 August.

Training participants were introduced to the basic principles of radar remote sensing, learned to use the relevant recommended practices, explored the process with selected case studies and presented the results in geographic information systems as flood maps. 

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Stakeholder Engagement within the Sendai Framework Midterm Review High Level Meeting

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Stakeholder Engagement

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism (SEM) presents all non-state actors with the possibility to engage in the follow-up and implementation of the Sendai Framework. The conference will be on the next 27th of March 2023 at Ge

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