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4 Sep 2014
Small Island Developing States: Strengthening partnerships for disaster risk management
NASA's EO-1 satellite captured the first image of the active Barbarbunga volcano
4 Sep 2014
First high res satellite images of Icelandic Bardarbunga volcano activity
Insured and uninsured catastrophe-related losses in USD billion
3 Sep 2014
Swiss Re: Insured disaster losses in first half of 2014 relatively low
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named an Independent Expert Advisory Group
2 Sep 2014
UN establishes Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data Revolution
Napa Valley earthquake captured in an interferogram.
2 Sep 2014
Radar Images: Sentinel-1A maps California earthquake
Visualisation 3D Science Park Amsterdam by UrbanFlood
1 Sep 2014
EU-funded projects support better flood warning
Recommended Practices on Flood Mapping.
1 Sep 2014
New on the Knowledge Portal: Recommended Practices
Over 40 participants joined the workshop in Mongolia. , Eight international experts formed the UN-SPIDER TAM mission team
1 Sep 2014
Mongolia: UN-SPIDER Technical Advisory Mission concluded
For Canada, which has coasts on three oceans, water information is invaluable.
1 Sep 2014
Canada invests in innovative mapping for global water survey
Sentinel 1-A images
29 Aug 2014
Sentinel-1 mission makes use of InSAR to track land deformation

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