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Spotlights Heat Map based on MODIS images for February 2015
4 Mar 2015
CONAE provides maps to fight fires in the Andes
Yvette storm in Southeast Europe and Balkans in 2014 (Image: NASA)
4 Mar 2015
e-GEOS will provide satellite maps for Copernicus emergency management
GRASS GIS Software (Image: GRASS Development Team)
4 Mar 2015
New version of GRASS GIS available now
Satellite image of Volcan Villarrica (Image: NASA)
3 Mar 2015
International Charter activated for a volcanic eruption in Chile
Sentinel-2 (Image: ESA/S. Corvaja)
3 Mar 2015
Sentinel-2: Europe's new Earth Observation satellite ready
Training of Teachers of Pune University on Disaster Management (Image: Kumarrakajee/Wikipedia)
3 Mar 2015
22 Asian countries agree on common disaster management procedures
Global precipitation map (Image: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
2 Mar 2015
NASA releases first global rainfall and snowfall map
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

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