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implemented in co-operation with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

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UNOSAT News
Thu, 29 Oct 2009
UNOSAT and Spot Image Strengthen Partnership

Spot Image S.A. and UNOSAT have a history of working together to enable mapping activities and applications based on Earth Observation data. A formal agreement signed recently reaffirms and strengthen the partnership linking UNOSAT and SPOT IMAGE and providing the United Nations with favorable rates on satellite imagery routinely used at UNOSAT to produce analyses and crisis management maps. Spot Image was part of the partnership that gave origin to the UNOSAT Project in 2000, which led through a process of technical and financial consolidation to the present operational programme UNOSAT.
 
Spot Image, along with its partners, is committed to making Earth observation images available for worthy causes such as responding to natural and man-made disasters, supporting humanitarian missions, the surveillance of the environment, international security and peace keeping, education and research. In all these domains, UNOSAT is constantly working to provide practical assistance to local authorities, UN managers and personnel in the field and at headquarters.
 
UNOSAT and Spot Image share high interest in improving the availability of integrated and cost-effective packages involving remote sensing and GIS technology to the benefit of the United Nations System. They also share a commitment to enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of activities carried out by remote sensing and GIS service providers in developing countries and countries in transition, through improved project management design and practices and to design, promote and carry out remote sensing and GIS technologies projects as part of international cooperation initiatives requiring territorial analysis.
 
Spot Image has a global presence providing local services. Headquarters of the Spot Image group are in Toulouse, France, with 6 subsidiaries in Australia, Brazil, China, United States, Japan and Singapore, and 2 offices in Mexico and Peru. Spot Image provides global products, services and solutions derived from the SPOT constellation and multiple sources of satellite data (ENVISAT, FORMOSAT, KOMPSAT). Spot Image is also one of the major partners of the International Charter Space and Major Disasters since 2000.

 

February 2010 unavailable

January 2010

Thu, 28 Jan 2010
UNOSAT engages in damage assessment over Haiti

Fri, 15 Jan 2010
Haiti Earthquake

Fri, 1 Jan 2010
UNITAR Cited as an Example of Climate Friendly Action

December 2009

Wed, 23 Dec 2009
UNITAR Sends its Seasons Greetings and Gears Up for 2010

Wed, 16 Dec 2009
UNOSAT Featured in UN Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Report on New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflics

Fri, 4 Dec 2009
UNOSAT Assists the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Following Floods in Uruguay

November 2009

Wed, 25 Nov 2009
UNOSAT announces results of research on Volcanic Risk

Thu, 12 Nov 2009
UNOSAT tasked with impact assessment from space over Nicaragua and Salvador

Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen - Satellite Imagery Analysis Help Monitor Internally Displaced People (IDP) Camps

Tue, 03 Nov 2009
UNOSAT Participates to the First International Conference on Crisis Mapping (Video Inside)

October 2009

Thu, 29 Oct 2009
UNOSAT and Spot Image Strengthen Partnership

Thu, 15 Oct 2009
UNOSAT Disseminates Analysis of Damage Caused by Tsunami in Samoa

Mon, 12 Oct 2009
UNOSAT Rapid Mapping Activations Continue to Increase

Thu, 08 Oct 2009
European Space Agency and EU Commission Invite UNITAR/UNOSAT to Discuss Space Applications Synergy

Fri, 02 Oct 2009
UNOSAT is tasked by humanitarians over Vietnam floods

Thu, 01 Oct 2009
UNOSAT aids UNOCHA and Humanitarian Community Following Tropical Storm Ketsana in the Philippines

September 2009

Thu, 24 Sep 2009
Developing knowledge in partnership - UNOSAT and ITC

Mon, 14 Sep 2009
UNOSAT Supports Floods Relief Efforts in West Africa

August 2009

Thu, 13 Aug 2009
Government of Namibia Thanks UNOSAT for Support During Flood Season

Fri, 07 Aug 2009
UNOSAT Volcano Mapping Work Cited by NASA

Thu, 06 Aug 2009
UNITAR Successful at ECOSOC, as Resolution Passes

Tue, 04 Aug 2009
UNITAR, UNIGE and CERN Collaborate on a Citizen Cyberscience Centre

July 2009

Wed, 15 Jul 2009
UNITAR Staff Celebrate Achievements to date and Plan for the next Biennium

Fri, 10 Jul 2009
International Charter Space and Major Disasters confirms primary role and status of UNOSAT

June 2009

Mon, 22 Jun 2009
UNITAR hosts Duke University' course on Humanitarian Assistance: Policy, Law and Practice

Fri, 19 Jun 2009
TANGO Humanitarian Aid Demonstration in Vietnam

Fri, 19 Jun 2009
UNITAR in Disaster Risk Reduction: a long standing commitment

May 2009

Fri, 29 May 2009
UN Secretary-General 2009 Report to ECOSOC on UNITAR Now Available

Wed, 27 May 2009
Jonathan Richard Ellis (CERN) Visits UNITAR Over Lunch On May 29th

Mon, 11 May 2009
Partnership with European Commission for Satellite Applications

April 2009

Mon, 27 Apr 2009
UNOSAT joins hands with UNICRI in applied research for security

Wed, 22 Apr 2009
The New York Times publishes UNOSAT maps again

Thu, 16 Apr 2009
TANGO Humanitarian Aid Demonstration in Vietnam - 1-9 May 2009, HUE, Vietnam

Tue, 14 Apr 2009
UNOSAT work makes cover story of CERN Newsletter

March 2009

Tue, 24 Mar 2009
Flooded Namibia relies on UNOSAT emergency flood mapping

Thu, 12 Mar 2009
Media Attention Still High on UNOSAT Mapping of Piracy Activities

Mon, 09 Mar 2009
Satellite imagery used as evidence in research on human rights

February 2009

Fri, 27 Feb 2009
UNOSAT and US State Department strengthen their collaboration

January 2009

Fri, 23 Jan 2009
UNOSAT on the BBC

Mon, 05 Jan 2009
UNOSAT and the Gaza Crisis


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