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UN-SPIDER April 2014 Updates

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In this issue:
UN-SPIDER at a glance

  • Call for Experts: UN-SPIDER Technical Advisory Mission to Mongolia
  • UN-SPIDER and LAPAN successfully organise ASEAN workshop
  • El Salvador: UN-SPIDER conducts Technical Advisory Mission
  • Chile Earthquake: UN-SPIDER compiles data
  • UN-SPIDER participates in ISDR Asia Platform
  • UN-SPIDER participates in training for International Charter Space and Major Disasters
  • UN-SPIDER to conduct Technical Advisory Mission to Bhutan

News from our Regional Support Offices

  • ROSA: Floods in Romania monitored by Copernicus EMS
  • IGAC: First International Seminar on Remote Sensing
  • ICIMOD: Strengthening ties with the Chinese Academy of Sciences

News from our Community

  • Indonesia: Launch of advanced disaster monitoring system
  • Solomon Islands: International Mechanisms activated for flood response
  • International Charter: Space and Major Disasters was activated five times in April
  • ESA successfully launched the first satellite of the Copernicus programme – Sentinel 1
  • Copernicus Master: Earth Observation Competition launched
  • IWG-SEM released emergency mapping guidelines
  • System to track Drought Dynamics developed by University of Cincinnati Geographers
  • Satellites show effects of long-term drought on the Congo rainforest
    New GIS to be launched by Viet Nam in the Mekong Delta

Upcoming events

  • 26-30 May 2014, Kiev, Ukraine, Fourth International Conference on Earth Observations for sustainable Development and Security
  • 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"