[UN SPIDER] October 2009 Updates

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   <News>

1. Importance of UN-SPIDER highlighted at the United Nations General
Assembly

2. UN-SPIDER to support Samoa, Fiji, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic

3. UN-SPIDER takes a leading role in supporting the response efforts in the
Philippines

4. 3rd International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop

5. UN-SPIDER carries out first Technical Advisory Mission to Latin America,
in Ecuador

6. UN-SPIDER makes headway at the regional workshop in Ecuador

7. International Day for Disaster Reduction

8. UN-Day on Bonn’s market square

9. UN-SPIDER Team to participate in relevant upcoming events

10. InWEnt Blended-Learning Course on Geodata for Environmental Statistics:
UN-SPIDER  informs African course participants on its mandate and Knowledge
Portal

11. DigitalGlobe unveils first Worldview-2 images

12. ASTRIUM inks two-satellite deal with Kazakhstan

13. Satellite data instrumental in combating desertification


   <Conferences and Workshops>

Joint  International  Workshop of ISPRS WG IV/1, WG VIII/1, and WG IV/3, on
“Geospatial  Data  Cyber Infrastructure and Real-time Services with special
emphasis on Disaster Management”, Hyderabad, India, 25-27 November 2009

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

The Third African Leadership Conference on Space Science and Technology for
Sustainable Development ALC-2009 - Algiers, Algeria 7 - 9 December 2009

The  Fourth  Caribbean  Conference  on  Comprehensive Disaster Management -
Montego Bay, Jamaica 7 - 11 December 2009

Asian  Conference  on  Disaster  Reduction  2010, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, 17-19
January 2010

The   16TH   Session  of  the  Asia-Pacific  Regional  Space  Agency  Forum
(APRSAF-16), Phuket, Thailand, 26-29 January 2010

GI4DM 2010 Conference, 2-4 February 2010, Torino, Italy

Spatial  assessment  and  analysis  of  vulnerability,  6  – 7 July, 2010 -
Salzburg,  Austria - Workshop within the GI_Forum 2010 - First Special Call
for Papers

(See attached file: UN-SPIDER Updates October 2009.pdf)
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