[UN SPIDER] September 2009 Updates

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   <News>

1. UN-SPIDER’s SpaceAid Framework operational

2. Bonn to host two key UN Meetings – 10th UNGIWG Plenary and UN-SPIDER
Workshop

3. UN-SPIDER Keynote Presentation at the International Symposium in Saudi
Arabia

4. UN-SPIDER fortifies Capacity Building Strategy at UNU-ITC Seminar

5. UN-SPIDER staff members put heads together in first programme building
retreat

6. UN-SPIDER helps develop guidelines for establishing ACPC Climate
Activities Database

7. South Africa’s Sumbandilasat successfully in orbit, awaiting full
activation

8. Micro-satellites MicroGEM offer improved earth monitoring

9. India launches Oceansat-2 for ocean study

10. Amid widespread droughts and crop failures, satellites could help
prevent famines

11. Satellite Images from MODIS Sensor Cover Southern California Forest
Fires

12. Satellites show ozone layer depletion levelling off

   <Conferences and Workshops>

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

The Third MERIT Technical Meeting, Niger, 9-11 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


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