In this issue:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
- Dominican Republic: Using novel geospatial tools for hurricane response
- First Preparatory Committee meeting for WCDRR concluded
- Crowdsource mapping: UN-SPIDER talks at AGIT2014 conference
- UN-SPIDER participates in 2014 Toulouse Space Show
- Dominican Republic: Supporting wild fire response
- Call for experts: Join our Technical Advisory Mission to Gabon
News from our Regional Support Offices
- IGAC: Studying Flooding and Droughts as baseline in Agroclimatic Risks
- ICIMOD receives GIS Award at Esri International User Conference
- RCMRD installs MODIS satellite data receiving station
- Argentina: Satellite-based atlas of Tucumán region
News from our Community
- Japan: First images of Daichi-2 released
- National Hurricane Center: Decisive tools for storm surge preparedness
- Gravity data could predict flooding months ahead
- Australia: Government launches National Map for geospatial data
- Using remotely sensed thermal images for extreme heat events
- EA-SAT-1: New Earth observation satellite developed in South Africa
- Typhoon Rammasun: International Charter activated for China and Viet Nam
- Contract signed for Development of Sentinel-1B Satellite
- Philippines: LiDAR mapping of major river basins completed
- Japan: Full scale disaster management system with Quasi-Zenith Satellites
- IRS satellite data: New agreement between India and Brazil
Upcoming events
- 24-28 August 2014, Davos, Switzerland: 5th International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC)
- 18-23 September 2014, Beijing, China: United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Management "Multi-hazard Disaster Risk Assessment"
- 22-24 September 2014, Graz, Austria: United Nations/Austria Symposium on “Space Science and the United Nations”
