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Introduction
In recent decades, communities in Africa have experienced disasters triggered by floods, droughts, landslides, forest fires, Ebola pandemics, and locust plagues that have eroded hard-won development gains. Taking note of advances in space technologies and other technological innovations, the African Union indicated in its 2017 African Space Policy that space represented a unique opportunity for cooperation in using and sharing enabling infrastructure and data towards the proactive management of, inter alia, responses to natural hazards and disasters.
NASA's latest satellite mission, the Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem (PACE), has been launched into orbit, marking a significant step in understanding crucial aspects of Earth's health and climate dynamics. PACE's primary objective is to examine the interplay between various components of Earth's systems, focusing on oceans, atmosphere, and climate.
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From 12-13 June 2024, the 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World: Addressing Compound and Multi-Hazard Risk will take place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference is organised by MYRIAD-EU, Risk KAN and NatRiskChange.
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), in collaboration with the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC), launched the fifth edition of the Space4Youth Essay Competition! The Competition targets students and young professionals with the aim to highlight governance practices and experiences on the sustainable use of outer space to address the needs of the present in a manner that protects the interests of future generations.
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have pioneered a method for monitoring river flows using satellite analysis, offering an advanced early warning system for flood risk. Current methods rely on expensive and challenging-to-install stream gauges, limiting coverage, especially in remote areas. The Glasgow researchers utilized video footage from a Chinese satellite to measure river discharge during a February 2022 flood along a 12-mile section of Australia's Darling River.
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Google Earth Engine (GEE) is an example of a cloud-based image service that combines an extensive archive of satellite imagery, historical and current, with application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow analysis to be performed on this imagery without having to move it to the user’s desktop.
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The AgroInformatics Team from the Digitalization and Informatics Division (CSI) of the FAO is launching a new series of interactive trainings, on “Introduction to Google Earth Engine (GEE) for remote sensing analysis”.
The Global Risks Report explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade, against a backdrop of rapid technological change, economic uncertainty, a warming planet and conflict. As cooperation comes under pressure, weakened economies and societies may only require the smallest shock to edge past the tipping point of resilience.
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About the Course
Today large amount of satellite imagery and geospatial data collected from different sources is available at free of cost. Satellite imagery combined with power of Geographic information System can be a great tool for supporting environmental management, disasters, global climate change, natural resources, wildlife, land cover and many other applications.
Processing this vast amount of data in time and space efficient manner and deriving useful information and knowledge from data is one of the most challenging aspect of geospatial technology.
The candidates who want to participate in the course should be a student of final year undergraduate course or postgraduate course (any year). Technical/Scientific Staff of Central/State Government/Faculty/researchers at university/institutions are also eligible to apply for this course. Applications of participants have to be duly sponsored by university/institute and forwarded through coordinators from respective centres.
