[UN SPIDER] May 2009 Updates

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   <News>



   1. UN-SPIDER at the Second Session of the Global Platform for Disaster
   Reduction, Geneva, 15 - 19 June 2009


   2. UN-SPIDER facilitates access to satellite imagery for disasters in
   Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan


   3. United Nations launches first Global Assessment Report on Disaster
   Risk Reduction


   4. Pacific Disaster Risk Management Partnership Network holds fourth
   annual meeting


    5. Satellite data can suggest when and where epidemics will strike
   next


    6. Satellite imagery shows fragile Wilkins Ice Shelf destabilised


    7. Protecting rescue workers deployed In a catastrophe


    8. NOAA announces new cooperative institute for climate and satellites


   <Conferences and Workshops>

   3rd Central Asia GIS Conference - GISCA'09, "GIScience for
   Environmental and Emergency Management in Central Asia", in Bishkek,
   Kyrgyzstan, 27-28 August 2009


   AfricaGIS 2009: "Geo-spatial Information and Sustainable Development in
   Africa" in Kampala, Uganda, 26-30 October 2009


   "3rd International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) African Regional
   Conference" in Abuja, Nigeria, 24-26 November 2009


   Pacific Islands GIS&RS User Conference 2009, in Suva, Fiji, 1-4
   December 2009
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