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UN-SPIDER Updates June 2014

In this issue:

UN-SPIDER at a glance

  • Expert Meeting on Flood and Drought Risk Reduction concluded
  • 57th COPUOS session: Outer Space for a sustainable Earth
  • UN-SPIDER speaks at 57th session of COPUOS
  • Technical Advisory Mission to Bhutan successfully concluded
  • UN-SPIDER participates in IWG-SEM meeting
  • UN-SPIDER participates in European Space Solutions Conference
  • UN-SPIDER organizes pre-event to AMCDRR
  • OOSA Director explores collaboration on Space issues in Geneva
  • Technical Advisory Mission to Zambia successfully concluded

News from our Regional Support Offices

  • NASDRA: "Made In Nigeria" Satellites
  • Joint UN-SPIDER/ICIMOD International Training Programme on Multi-level Risk Profiling
  • Algerian Space Agency tracks land use change with Alsat-2A
  • IGAC: Monitoring Agricultural Crops with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

News from our Community

  • EUMETSAT: Measuring the temperature of lava with satellites
  • Google buys satellite image provider Skybox
  • United States and Honduras to Test Disaster Response Software in Simulated Hurricane Scenario
  • International Charter activated for floods in Argentina and Brazil
  • Sri Lanka: NASA TRMM data reveals extraordinary flooding
  • Russia: Launch of GLONASS-M55 satellite into orbit
  • KazEOSat-2: Second Kazakh Earth Observation Satellite is in orbit
  • First set of data from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission published
  • AMCDRR: Bangkok declaration on disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific 2014

Upcoming events

  • 14-15 July 2014, Geneva, Switzerland: First Session of the Preparatory Committee of the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
  • 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”
 
Tuesday, 1 July 2014 - 12:00
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