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The salt marsh is a natural buffer to coastal floods and erosion. Photo: unefunge/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
15 Mar 2018
New tool uses Copernicus data to assess coastal flood and erosion risk
14 Mar 2018
International Charter activated for New Caledonia cyclone
14 Mar 2018
European Commission signs Earth observation cooperation arrangements with Colombia, Chile and Brazil
Collapsed building after the Kumamoto earthquake, Japan. Photo: Hyolee2/CC BY-SA 3.0
12 Mar 2018
Study highlights uses of LiDAR for earthquake damage assessments
Hurricane Irma Haiti September 2017
9 Mar 2018
UNOOSA activation privileges for International Charter augmented to include national disaster risk management agencies
Image of Hurricane Joaquin over the Atlantic Ocean north of Bermuda taken by GOES East on October 5, 2015.
8 Mar 2018
Satellite technology improves tracking of hurricane wind speed
8 Mar 2018
Disaster Management Center of Sri Lanka becomes Authorized User of International Charter
Wildfire in California in October 2017
5 Mar 2018
New NOAA satellite aims to better predict severe weather, save lives
1 Mar 2018
New Spanish Earth observation satellite launched
MOBILISE workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
27 Feb 2018
UN-SPIDER participates in MOBILISE event in Colombo

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