[UN SPIDER] October 2008 Updates

[Tony Young LYU]

Dear Colleagues, 
 
Please find attached the UN-SPIDER October 2008 Updates. 
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News included in this UN-SPIDER Updates:
 
1. UN-SPIDER International Workshop in Bonn/Germany
 
2. United Nations Activates International Charter for Floods in Yemen
 
3. Mr. Lorant Czaran Joins UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER as Head of the UN-SPIDER Bonn 
Office
 
4. United Nations Agencies Confirm UNOOSA?s role as Cooperating Body to 
the International Charter 
 
5. 2005 Kashmir Earthquake: The Role of Information Technology in Relief 
Activities
 
6. The Past and Future of Crisis Mapping ? A Personal Account
 
7. Third COSMO-SkyMed Satellite Launched from California
 
8. Satellite Data Reveals Extreme Summer Snowmelt in Northern Greenland 
 
9. CALL FOR PAPERS: The International Journal of Applied Earth Observation 
and Geoinformation ? Special Issue on Geospatial Technologies for Disaster 
Management 
 
10. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Thematic Session on Disaster Communication Systems 
at the India Disaster Management Congress 2009
 
Conferences and Workshops:
 
?9th Plenary Meeting of the United Nations Geographic Information Working 
Group (UNGIWG)? in Vienna, Austria, 5-7 November 2008 
 
"Use of Remote Sensing Techniques for Monitoring Volcanoes and Seismogenic 
Areas - USEReST 2008? in Naples, Italy, 11-13 November 2008
 
?International Symposium GeoTunis 2008 ? 3rd Edition? in Tunis, Tunisia, 
26-30 November 2008
 
?Second International Conference on Geoinformation Technology for Natural 
Disaster Management and Rehabilitation? in Bangkok, Thailand, 1-2 December 
2008 
 
?Cartography and Geoinformatics for Early Warning and Emergency 
Management: Towards Better Solutions? in Prague, Czech Republic, 19-22 
January 2009 
 
?L'Outil Spatial au Service de  la Gestion des Catastrophes et des 
Situations d'Urgence en Afrique? ? Rabat, Morocco, 10-12 November 2008. 
 
Regards, 
Tony Lyu 



 
____________________________ 
Tony (Young S.) LYU 
Associate Expert 
UNOOSA / UN-SPIDER 
Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10 
53113 Bonn, Germany 
+49 (0)228.815.0678
young.lyu at unoosa.org
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