United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Space Technology and Disaster Management - Relevant Links

UNITED NATIONS Afghanistan Information Management Services - AIMS Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - UNESCO International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) International Telecommunications Union - ITU ReliefWeb Tropical Cyclone Programme - WMO UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific - UNESCAP UN Economic Commission for Africa UNEP - Data Portal UN Geographic Information Working Grup - UNGIWG UN System-Wide Earthwatch World Meteorological Organization

INTERNATIONAL DISASTER RELIEF ORGANISATIONS AND INITIATIVES American Red Cross - Disaster Services Center for International Disaster Information Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) International Charter Space and Major Disasters International Committee of the Red Cross International Institute for Disaster Risk Management Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)

SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND DISASTER INFORMATION Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI/CAF/DLR) Earth Observation Handbook, CEOS Earth Watch - Worldwide Disaster Aid and Information via the Internet FEWS Net - Africa Data Dissemination Service (ADDS) NASA - Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs)

REGIONAL ORGANISATIONS Asian Disaster Preparedness Center Asian Disaster Reduction Center Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) Disaster Info, Pan American Health Organization Pacific Disaster Center (PDC)

DISASTER MANAGEMENT NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS Argentina - Direcci�n Nacional de Pol�ticas de Seguridad y Protecci�n Civil Government of India - Natural Disaster Management South Africa - National Disaster Management Centre

SPACE TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATIONS Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) Committee on Earth Observations Satellites (CEOS) Digital Globe: Quickbird Inmarsat Satellite Phones and Services (Infosat Telecommunications) Intelsat National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) NOAA Satellites and Information Space Imaging SPOT Image USDA FAS - Remote Sensing: International Crop Condition USGS - Earthquake Hazards Program USGS - National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive

SPACE AGENCIES AND ORGANISATIONS Austrian Space Agency (ASA) Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) British National Space Centre (BNSC) Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) China National Space Administration (CNSA) Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), Argentina Danish Space Research Institute (DSRI) European Space Agency (ESA) Portal German Aerospace Center (DLR) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Instituto Nacional de T�cnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Spain Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) Norwegian Space Centre Russian Aviation and Space Agency Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)

ACADEMIC / RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS Centre d�Etudes des Risques G�ologiques (CERG) Centre For Disaster Studies, James Cook University (Australia) Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) Dartmouth Flood Observatory Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo Flood Hazard Research Centre Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) GOFC/GOLD Fire Monitoring and Mapping Implementation Team Hazard Reduction and Recovery Centre Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems (DRS) Risk Frontiers: Natural Hazards Research Centre, Macquarie University (Australia) University of Manitoba: Disaster Research Institute

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