Landsat 8 imagery reveals consequences of severe drought on Iberian Peninsula

On the Iberian Peninsula Portal and Spain are facing a severe drought, that started in November 2021 and worsened in the following months. Officials in Portugal were forced to limit the use of hydroelectric dams for power production and irrigation, as some reservoirs started reaching significant lows.

Chinese remote-sensing satellite L-SAR 01A started taking pictures and transmitting observation data

On 26 January, China launched a Long March-4C carrier rocket, placing the L-SAR 01A satellite in space. Equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the satellite can be used for monitoring the geological environment, especially for landslide and earthquake monitoring.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the national space agency of India, headquartered in Bengaluru.

It operates under the Department of Space (DOS) which is directly overseen by the Prime Minister of India, while Chairman of ISRO acts as executive of DOS as well.

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ISRO successfully launched radar imaging satellite EOS-04

On Monday 14 February 2022, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully injected the Earth Observation Satellite EOS-04 into a sun synchronous polar orbit of 529 km altitude. As a radar imaging satellite, it is designed to provide high quality images under all weather conditions for applications such as Agriculture, Forestry & Plantations, Soil Moisture & Hydrology and Flood Mapping.

11th Annual Coordination Meeting of UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices

This is event is available for participation on an ongoing basis

UN-SPIDER organised the 11th annual coordination meeting of its Regional Support Offices (RSOs) on 12 and 13 October 2021.  The coordination meeting brought together focal points of the Regional Support Offices in Algeria, Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Norway,  Pakistan, Romania, the Russian Federation, and Thailand.  The coordination meeting, held in a virtual fashion due to COVID-19 restrictions,  allowed the RSOs to comment on the activities carried out during 2021.

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ESA hosts new international office in the UK to coordinate global climate modelling push

Climate models are used for understanding past climate and provide projections of potential changes. For addressing global warming, environmental changes and the resulting risks, there is an increased need and demand for further research and development in the field of climate modeling, together with the need for international collaboration.

Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), University of Wisconsin-Madison

SSEC engineers and scientists develop and utilize space-, aircraft- and ground-based instrumentation to collect and analyze observations of the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and other planetary atmospheres to improve our understanding of weather, climate, and atmospheric processes. Through this research they produce new resources, products, and tools that are helping to improve the accuracy and timeliness of weather forecasts.

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NOAA-20

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NOAA-20, designated JPSS-1 prior to launch, is the first of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites called the Joint Polar Satellite System. NOAA-20 was launched on 18 November 2017 and joined the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite in the same orbit. NOAA-20 operates about 50 minutes ahead of Suomi NPP, allowing important overlap in observational coverage.

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Himawari 8

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Himawari 8 is a Japanese weather satellite, the 8th of the Himawari geostationary weather satellites operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The spacecraft was constructed by Mitsubishi Electric with assistance from Boeing, and is the first of two similar satellites to be based on the DS-2000 satellite bus. Himawari 8 entered operational service on 7 July 2015 and is the successor to MTSAT-2 (Himawari 7) which was launched in 2006.

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