In this issue:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
- New brochure on UN-SPIDER available
- UN-SPIDER speaks at International Peace Institute Seminar
- UNOOSA co-chairs 14th UNGIWG Plenary Meeting in New York
- UN-SPIDER participates in International Symposium of Integrated Disaster Risk Governance
- Floods in Balkan: UN-SPIDER compiles list with satellite resources
- UN-SPIDER publishes article in Geospatial World magazine
- 57th session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
- UN-Space: 34th UN Interagency Meeting on Outer Space Activities
- UN-SPIDER contributes to seminar of International Civil Defence Organisation
News from our Regional Support Offices
- ROSA: Launch of European Space Education Resource Office
- IGAC: First forum for the Colombian Spatial Data Infrastructure
- IGAC: Training Course on interpreting SAR Images for Land Cover Monitoring
- SUPARCO: First remote sensing lab for crops inaugurated
- SUPARCO: Emergency map for Afghanistan landslide
- EMERCOM: International Charter activated due to flood events in Serbia
- ICIMOD: Glacier Status Change over 30 years based on Landsat Data
- ICIMOD: Training youth in Earth Observation in Bangladesh
- IGAC: Technical Cooperation meeting on Disaster Monitoring Constellation
News from our Community
- Kazakhstan: First Earth Observation satellite in orbit
- UNISDR and Esri partner up to map disaster risk
- India: Second regional navigation satellite in orbit
- CNES and NASA to collaborate on global water and ocean surface survey
- China: Fengyun III satellite is operational
- United States: Extensive drought captured by satellites
- Indonesia: GIS used for real-time fire response information sharing
- Philippines launch Yolanda Rehabilitation Scientific Information Center
- Air quality monitoring satellite Sentinel-5P one step closer to launch
- New study: Predicting Earthquakes with GNSS data
Upcoming events
- 5-6 June 2014, Bonn, Germany: United Nations/Germany Expert Meeting on the Use of Space-based Information for flood and drought risk reduction
- 22 June 2014, Bangkok, Thailand: Pre-conference event by UN-SPIDER and GFDRR at 6th AMCDRR
- Apply now! 18-23 September 2014, Beijing, China: United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Management "Multi-hazard Disaster Risk Assessment"
