[TZGISUG] [UN SPIDER] Updates December 2012

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Dear colleagues,

Happy and prosperous new year to you, your families and colleagues!

We are happy to share with you the December 2012 issue of the UN-SPIDER
Updates.

The Updates are available for reading or downloading on:

http://www.un-spider.org/about/updates/un-spider-updates-december-2012


In this issue:

UN-SPIDER at a glance

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 UN-SPIDER supports APSCO Training course on Earthquake Monitoring
 International Meeting of Crowdsource Mapping successfully concluded
 Typhoon Bopha: UN-SPIDER facilitates activation of Charter


News from our Regional Support Offices

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 SUPARCO/FAO issue study on rapid crop damage assessment in Pakistan in
 2012
 International Workshop on flood risk mapping using spatial technologies
 Károly Róbert University College establishes new Remote Sensing Laboratory
 Hyperspectral data plays important role in environmental monitoring



News from our Community

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 Hurricane Sandy: Polar-orbiting satellites were key in pinpointing
 landfall
 Cyclone Evan: International Charter activated three times
 UNOOSA/Japan establish Fellowship Programme on Nano-Satellite Technologies
 Galileo: First navigation signals transmitted by FM3
 Japan to host World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
 Floods the most frequent disaster in Asia in 2012



Upcoming events

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 28 January-2 February 2013: Application Mapping Techniques and Geographic
 Information Systems (GIS) for Landscape Interpretation and Representation
 6-8 February 2013: International Interdisciplinary Conference on Geo- and
 Environmental Information and Communication
 11-15 March 2013: United Nations/Pakistan International Workshop on
 Integrated Use of Space Technologies for Food and Water Security


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