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Calcutta city in India during the night. Satellite imagery can contribute to urban planning. (Image: ESA)
13 Aug 2015
Indian Space Research Organization to contribute to urban planning
Satellite image of the flood in Buenos Aires province (Image: CONAE)
13 Aug 2015
CONAE: satellite data to mitigate flooding in Buenos Aires province
Parts of land lost to the sea along the last four decades (Image: Zachary Tessler/USGS and NASA)
13 Aug 2015
Climate change increases risk of floods in delta cities
Image captured by Sentinel-2A satellite on the vegetation of Northwest Sardinia, Italy (Source: ESA)
13 Aug 2015
Need for variables to monitor biodiversity from space
Satellite image of blazing bushfires in Victoria, Australia (Source: NASA)
12 Aug 2015
Geoscience Australia to develop a satellite system for bushfire monitoring
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, monitoring precipitation measurements from space (Source: NASA)
12 Aug 2015
Research warns about the need to improve rainfall satellite portfolio
Image of the areas affected by forest fires captured by Alsat-2A (Image: ASAL
11 Aug 2015
Algerian Alsat-2A to determine the impact of forest fires
Image captured by the TerraSAR-X (Image: DLR)
7 Aug 2015
Free access to X-Band satellite data for Canadian institutions
Wildfires blazing in North California (Image: NASA)
7 Aug 2015
ESRI maps for monitoring wildfires in Western US
Supervision of LAPAN team on technical advisory meeting on 7 July in Bondowoso (Image: LAPAN)
6 Aug 2015
LAPAN to contribute to the mitigation efforts of the eruption of Mt. Raung and Mt. Sinabung, Indonesia

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