[UN SPIDER] December 2008 Updates

[UN SPIDER]

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   News included in this UN-SPIDER Updates:

   1. UN-SPIDER Strengthens Collaboration with Bonn-based UN Agencies and
   Related Organizations

   2. First Regional Conference on Geoinformatics: Disaster Management and
   Early Warning Systems, Kuwait

   3. ESA Starts to Make Data Available for GMES

   4. Satellite-based Flood Response in the Aftermath of Sichuan
   Earthquake

   5. Use of Space-Based Information to Reduce Disaster Risk in
   Asia-Pacific Region Receives a Boost

   6. Web Tool Ushahidi Helps Map Crisis Information via Crowdsourcing

   7. China Launches Yaogan V Remote-sensing Satellite

   Conferences and Workshops

   "Cartography and Geoinformatics for Early Warning and Emergency
   Management: Towards Better Solutions" in Prague, Czech Republic, 19-22
   January 2009

   "Map World Forum" in Hyderabad, India, 10-13 February 2009

   III Cuban Earth Sciences Convention and Fair, Havana, Cuba, 16-20 March
   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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   UN-SPIDER

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