Internationalization
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Better flow of satellite data for better management of environmental and security crises
- December 20, 2007
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EARSC News, Internationalization
No CommentsNatural and manmade catastrophes in Europe, America, Asia and Africa, coupled with increased security needs, have further reinforced the need for earth observation systems. The GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) ensures that crisis situations like floods, forest fires or earthquakes can be better anticipated and managed through monitoring the state of our environment. To supply space data in a seamless, integrated, timely and secure way to the GMES users the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a 48 million € grant for a coordinated provision of space-based observation data for GMES for its pre-operational phase 2008-2010. This new coherent and cost-efficient approach prefigures an operational service that will offer a comprehensive and sustained supply of space-based earth observation data.
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Successful Launch of COSMO-Skymed 2 satellite
- December 9, 2007
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EARSC News, Internationalization
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Global Environmental System Could Significantly Cut Disaster Toll
- November 29, 2007
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EARSC News, Internationalization
A new global Earth observation system, that could save lives in disasters such as the recent cyclone in southern Bangladash, is being reviewed at a ministerial-level summit in Cape Town this week. VOA’s Delia Robertson in Johannesburg has this report.
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Melting ice to threaten shipping
- November 14, 2007
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EARSC News, Internationalization
During the last 25 years, satellites have been observing the Arctic and have witnessed reductions in the minimum ice extent. At the end of summer in the early 1980s this area measured approximately 8 million km²; now in 2007, this area has massively shrunk to a historic minimum of less than 4.24 million km² according to observations made by the ESA’s Envisat satellite. This change will have serious consequences for shipping in the arctic.
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GAF AG to conclude AQUIFER project on African transboundary water management supported by Earth observation
- July 23, 2007
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EARSC News, Internationalization
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China To Launch Third Sino-Brazilian Satellite In September
- June 18, 2007
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Archive, Internationalization
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Next Sino-Brazilian satellite nearly ready for launch
- June 15, 2007
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Archive, Internationalization
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UN-Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to Hold 50th Session
- June 4, 2007
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EARSC News, Internationalization
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New Satellite Coverage for Natural Disasters
- April 10, 2007
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EARSC News, Internationalization
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Outer Space Scientific and Technical Subcommittee to Hold 44th Session (AU)
- February 10, 2007
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EARSC News, Internationalization
The newly established space-system-based disaster management programme, a safety framework for nuclear power sources in outer space, mitigation guidelines for space debris and International Heliophysical Year 2007 will be the key agenda items at the 44th session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), which will take place in Vienna, Austria, from 12 to 23 February. (Source Spaceref)