In this issue:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
- UN-SPIDER Beijing Conference “Multi-hazard Disaster Risk Assessment” successfully concluded
- China: UN-SPIDER Training Course on Space Technologies for Drought Monitoring
- UN-SPIDER hosts joint Workshop on Remote Sensing and Multi-Risk Modelling for Disaster Management
- New in the UN-SPIDER team: Dr. Joachim Post
- UN-SPIDER participates in Asia-Pacific Policy Makers Dialogue
- Disaster Risk Reduction: On the way to WCDRR
- UN-SPIDER participates in 22nd OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum
- Sri Lanka: UN-SPIDER to conduct training programme in November
- Viet Nam: UN-SPIDER Workshop and Exercises scheduled in November
Dataset of the month
News from our Regional Support Offices
News from our Community
- Disaster statistics: 22 million people displaced in 2013
- SWIR sensor: Seeing through active fire smoke
- Ethiopia plans to launch own satellite
- NASA: High-resolution topographic data soon available globally
- International Charter activated twice in September 2014
- International Charter: Website relaunched
- DMCii upgrades its data centre
- Russia to cooperate with China on satellite navigation
- Radar Images: Sentinel-1A maps California earthquake
- UN establishes Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data Revolution
- Disaster Resilience Journal: 42 Days of Disaster Resilience
Upcoming events
- 20-23 October 2014, Ensenada, Mexico: UN/Mexico Symposium on Basic Space Technology: “Making Space Technology Accessible and Affordable”
- 23-24 October 2014, Berlin, Germany: Satellite Masters Conference
- 11-14 November 2014, Libreville, Gabon: GEO-XI Plenary
- 8-9 January 2015, Uttar Pradesh, India: Second International Space Conference 2015
