[UN SPIDER] January 2009 Newsletter and Updates

[UN SPIDER]

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   Updates.
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   News included in the UPDATES:

   1. UN-SPIDER Provides Technical Advisory Support to Namibia

   2. UN-SPIDER Stakeholders to Meet at COPUOUS Scientific and Technical
   Subcommittee

   3. Applications of SPOT Imagery for Disaster Response

   4. International Recovery Platform Launches New Website

   5. Two New Satellites to be Added to Disaster Monitoring Constellation

   6. Rise in Extreme Weather Events Fuelling Demand for UN Disaster
   Management Expertise

   7. Death Toll from Disasters Surged in 2008, UN Reports

   8. Construction of Chinese Version of "Google Earth" Launched

   9. New Disasters Earth Observation Monitoring Initiative in Canada:
   Assessment and Mitigation of Active Geohazard Sites

   <Conferences and Workshops>
   "Map World Forum" in Hyderabad, India, 10-13 February 2009

   1st International Workshop on "Validation of Earthquake precursors by
   Satellite and Terrestrial Observations (VESTO)" in Chiba University,
   Japan, 26-28 March 2009

   CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CIESIN Workshop on "Geospatial Analysis for
   Attaining the Millennium Development Goals" in Bonn, Germany, April
   2009

   "5th GRSS/ISPRS workshop on Data Fusion and Remote Sensing over Urban
   Areas (URBAN 2009)" in Shanghai, China, 20-22 May 2009

   First International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Regional
   Meeting/Symposium in Yaounde, Cameroon, 22-23 May, 2009

   2nd Regional Workshop of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems
   (GEOSS) Support for Decision-Making in the Coastal Zone: "Strengthening
   Observing Systems Capacity for Managing and Mitigating the Impacts of
   Human Activities and Coastal Inundation in the African Region" in
   Accra, Ghana, 2-7 August 2009

   CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd Central Asia GIS Conference - GISCA'09, "GIScience
   for Environmental and Emergency Management in Central Asia", in
   BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN, 27-28 August , 2009

   "Processing and Classification of Satellite Imagery" Thematic Session
   within the VipIMAGE2009 - II ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on
   Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing in Porto, Portugal,
   14-16 October 2009

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   News included in the NEWSLETTER:

   <Technical Advisory>
   Burkina Faso

   <Disaster Management>
   Yemen, Kenya, Colombia

   <Outreach>
   Geo-informatics / Kuwait
   Space and Disasters / Morocco
   AARSE / Ghana
   UN Editors Group

   <Horizontal Coordination>
   UNGIWG
   GEO Plenary
   Bonn Agencies

   <Staffing>
   Juan Carlos Villagrán de León

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   UN-SPIDER

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References

   1. http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/unspider/docs.html
   2. http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/unspider/docs.html
   3. mailto:un-spider at unoosa.org
   4. http://www.unspider.org/