In this issue:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
News from our Regional Support Offices
- Regional Support Offices elaborate Recommended Practices
- Russia: New Space monitoring station for emergency prevention and prediction
- CATHALAC: Support to flood-stricken Eastern Caribbean islands
- IGAC: New Satellite image processing system
- ADRC: Following up on DRR policy peer review project
- ICIMOD: Collaboration project for geospatial applications
- Russia: Towards a Space Threat protection system
News from our Community
- World Economic Forum publishes Global Risks Report 2014
- Gaofen-1: Chinese HD Satellite officially put in service
- UAE: First Arab-made satellite to be launched in 2017
- Akademik Shokalskiy: Satellites helped trapped vessel in the Antarctic
- International Charter activated four times in January
- ESA: Sentinel 1a to be launched in April
- NASA prepares for a big year in Earth Science
- Brazil: Satellite measures record rain floods
- NASA maps global temperature anomalies in US and Europe
- GlobTemperature project: One stop shop for surface temperature data
Upcoming events
- 1-4 April 2014, Rabat, Morocco: Third International Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water Management
- 15-16 April 2014, Yogyakarta, Indonesia: ASEAN Workshop on Development of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for utilisation of Space-based information during emergency response
- 26-30 May 2014, Kiev, Ukraine, Fourth International Conference on Earth Observations for sustainable Development and Security
- 5-6 June 2014, Bonn, Germany: UN-SPIDER Expert Meeting on Space Technologies for Drought and Flood
