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During drought even drinking water can become scarce in Maharashtra (Image: Hemant Mishra/Mint)
21 May 2015
Satellite technology to combat droughts in India
High-resolution global soil moisture map from SMAP (Image: NASA)
20 May 2015
NASA Soil Moisture Mission to predict natural hazards
The MEOSAR satellite-based search and rescue system will improve the current COSPAS-SARSAT system (Image: NOAA)
19 May 2015
Emergency Readiness and Response Experience Center opened in USA
True color satellite image of the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam (Image: NASA)
18 May 2015
Viet Nam and India cooperate in remote sensing technology
Data from the sensors are made available via a web-based interface (Image: ESA)
18 May 2015
Structural movements to be detected through satellite navigation sensors
The first wave of January 2010 El Nino storms (Image: USNRL)
18 May 2015
Computer models forecast substantial El Nino event
Decades of satellite images show: Earth is a cloudy place (Image: NASA)
15 May 2015
NASA satellites show: Earth is a cloudy place
International Geomatic Week 2015 will particularly focus on "Geospatial information for building peace"
14 May 2015
IGAC: Preparing for the 2015 International Geomatic Week
Japan to use a supercomputer for disaster risk reduction after the devastation caused by the 2011 tsunami (Image: U.S. Air Force)
14 May 2015
Supercomputer K: An ally to reduce disaster risks
Rosa brings the ESNC to Romania (Image: ROSA)
13 May 2015
ROSA announced prizes of ESNC Regional Competition in Romania

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