The non-COVID-19 disasters in the year 2020

2020: The Non-COVID Disasters

Undoubtedly, the year 2020 will be remembered as the year when COVID-19 began to impact societies worldwide as a truly trans-boundary health hazard, manifesting the vulnerability of people in developed and in developing countries alike.  The news about the COVID-19 pandemic blurred news related to other disasters triggered by natural, technological and biological hazards.  One of those was the very large locust outbreak that began in the Horn of Africa late in 2019, and later migrated through the Middle East to Southern Asia.

2020: The Non-COVID Year in Disasters

PerúSAT-1

CONIDA
No

Peru’s first Earth Observation satellite was commissioned by the Peruvian government for its national space agency, CONIDA (Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacial) in 2014, and constructed in a record time of less than 24 months. PerúSAT-1 features the very-high-resolution optical New AstroSat Optical Modular Instrument (NAOMI) imager designed and developed by Airbus Defence and Space. This silicon carbide optical instrument provides panchromatic images with 70 cm spatial resolution and multispectral images in up to 2 m spatial resolution.

10years

Copernicus Open Access Hub

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exportdata
Data Viewing and Download interface
Overview about Sentinel Missions
Guide for searching and downloading data in the Graphical User Interface
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Copernicus Open Access Hub. Image Credit: ESA.
The Copernicus Open Access Hub provides complete, free and open access to Sentinel missions data.

Terms and Conditions.

2014-present

NOAA OneStop (Data Search Platform)

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satdata
free
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NOAA OneStop Data Search Portal
NOAA OneStop Data Search Platform. Image Credit: NOAA
NOAA OneStop was created as a pathfinder effort to provide enhanced collection and granule searching for only those datasets archived at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). The portal provides a user-orientated point of access to weather, climate, satellite, fisheries, coastal, geomagnetic, and ocean data.

Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)

NOAA
NASA
No

DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) is an American space weather station developed in partnership with NASA, NOAA, and the U.S. Air Force, that monitors changes in the solar wind, providing space weather alerts and forecasts for geomagnetic storms that could disrupt power grids, satellites, telecommunications, aviation, and GPS. DSCOVR orbits approximately 1.5 million km from Earth in a unique location called Lagrange point 1 (L1), the neutral gravity point between the Earth and Sun.

Instruments:

8years
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