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Three panels from the National Land Cover Database depicting land cover change in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Alaska, from 2001 to 2011
27 Feb 2015
USGS: New land cover data released for Alaska
True-color MODIS image of Bolivia (Image: NASA)
27 Feb 2015
International Charter activated for floods in Bolivia
UNOOSA and DigitalGlobe have signed a memorandum of understand on satellite imagery
27 Feb 2015
UNOOSA and DigitalGlobe sign agreement to collaborate on satellite imagery
Sentinel-2A's Laser Terminal (Image: ESA)
26 Feb 2015
European Data Relay System services for Copernicus
DLR and the United Nations University agreed on closer cooperation
26 Feb 2015
United Nations University and German Aerospace Center strengthen collaboration
25 Feb 2015
UNOOSA contributes to CEOS/ESA publication on Earth observation for disaster risk reduction
1780 people in the Austrian Alps had to be rescued last year
25 Feb 2015
New system uses satellites to support rescue missions in the Alps
Floods in Sri Lanka (Image: Flickr/Ranveig)
24 Feb 2015
IWMI: Low-cost weather stations to help Sri Lanka prepare for floods
Flooding of the Mississippi river in 2011 (Image: NASA)
24 Feb 2015
Call for expressions of interest: UN-SPIDER capacity building programme in USA
23 Feb 2015
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