The “Roundtable Meetings on Innovations in Technologies for Disaster Rescue Efforts amongst ASEM countries” took place on 4 and 5 December 2014 in New Delhi, India. ASEM is the Asia-Europe Meeting. Shirish Ravan of UN-SPIDER co-chaired a session on Technology Transfer: Joint ventures among ASEM Countries and presented the topic “Consideration for Effective Use of Space-based Information for Emergency Response“.
The main objective of the meetings was to focus the attention of ASEM member countries on how technology innovations can be utilized to save lives and reduce effective response time by Governments. Participants also addressed how ASEM countries can contribute to capacity building both in Asia and Europe through the sharing of best practices. Another goal of the meetings was to facilitate partnership building among interested ASEM countries and their industry. This effort aims to build disaster rescue and relief capacities, including through the development of joint ventures.
The meetings were also the occasion to introduce the Virtual Knowledge Portal (VKP) and to allow the 24×7 point of contacts (PoCs) of the East Asia Summit (EAS) member countries to deliberate and finalize their terms of reference.
Full story and addititional documents
Foto: UN-SPIDER expert, Dr. Shirish Ravan, addressed the effective use of Space-based information for emergency response. (c) UN-SPIDER
You will find more information from and about UN-SPIDER in the December 2014 edition of the UN-SPIDER Updates with the following topics of interest:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
- New UN-SPIDER Portal design and French version launched
- UN-SPIDER participates in Asia-Europe Meeting Roundtable on Disaster Rescue
- Korean delegation visited the UN-SPIDER Bonn Office
Data application of the month
News from our Regional Support Offices
- SUPARCO: Satellite-based Monitoring of Pakistan Floods 2014
- Recommended Practice: Agricultural Drought Monitoring
News from our Community
- SPOT-7 remote sensing satellite to be managed by Azerbaijan
- Successful Navigation Test Campaign for recovered Galileo satellite FOC-FM1
- ESA: Laser link offers high-speed delivery of Earth Observation data
- International Charter activated twice in December 2014
- KARI takes over chairmanship of the International Charter for six-month period
- Turkey: Launch of new satellite within five years
- China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite launched
- Made-in-Nigeria satellite to be launched in 2018
- New highly detailed ecological land units map of the world published
- New OCHA report shows opportunities for remote sensing in humanitarian assistance
Upcoming events
- Apply now: United Nations/Germany International Conference on Earth Observation on 26-28 May 2015, Bonn, Germany
- 14-18 March 2015, Sendai, Japan: UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
The “Roundtable Meetings on Innovations in Technologies for Disaster Rescue Efforts amongst ASEM countries” took place on 4 and 5 December 2014 in New Delhi, India. ASEM is the Asia-Europe Meeting. Shirish Ravan of UN-SPIDER co-chaired a session on Technology Transfer: Joint ventures among ASEM Countries and presented the topic “Consideration for Effective Use of Space-based Information for Emergency Response“.
The main objective of the meetings was to focus the attention of ASEM member countries on how technology innovations can be utilized to save lives and reduce effective response time by Governments. Participants also addressed how ASEM countries can contribute to capacity building both in Asia and Europe through the sharing of best practices. Another goal of the meetings was to facilitate partnership building among interested ASEM countries and their industry. This effort aims to build disaster rescue and relief capacities, including through the development of joint ventures.
The meetings were also the occasion to introduce the Virtual Knowledge Portal (VKP) and to allow the 24×7 point of contacts (PoCs) of the East Asia Summit (EAS) member countries to deliberate and finalize their terms of reference.
Full story and addititional documents
Foto: UN-SPIDER expert, Dr. Shirish Ravan, addressed the effective use of Space-based information for emergency response. (c) UN-SPIDER
You will find more information from and about UN-SPIDER in the December 2014 edition of the UN-SPIDER Updates with the following topics of interest:
UN-SPIDER at a glance
- New UN-SPIDER Portal design and French version launched
- UN-SPIDER participates in Asia-Europe Meeting Roundtable on Disaster Rescue
- Korean delegation visited the UN-SPIDER Bonn Office
Data application of the month
News from our Regional Support Offices
- SUPARCO: Satellite-based Monitoring of Pakistan Floods 2014
- Recommended Practice: Agricultural Drought Monitoring
News from our Community
- SPOT-7 remote sensing satellite to be managed by Azerbaijan
- Successful Navigation Test Campaign for recovered Galileo satellite FOC-FM1
- ESA: Laser link offers high-speed delivery of Earth Observation data
- International Charter activated twice in December 2014
- KARI takes over chairmanship of the International Charter for six-month period
- Turkey: Launch of new satellite within five years
- China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite launched
- Made-in-Nigeria satellite to be launched in 2018
- New highly detailed ecological land units map of the world published
- New OCHA report shows opportunities for remote sensing in humanitarian assistance
Upcoming events