[Sdi-latinamericacaribbean] GEOSS/UN-SPIDER Spring School, Santa Maria, Brazil, 8-12 September 2008

[Kate Lance]

GEOSS/UN-SPIDER Spring School "Primera Escuela de Primavera Sobre
Soluciones Espaciales Para el Manejo de Desastres Naturales y Respuestas de
Emergencias-Inundaciones" in Santa Maria, Brazil, 8-12 September 2008.
Organizado por el Centro Regional de Educação em Ciência e Tecnologia
Espacial para America Latina e o Caribe - CRECTEALC - Campus Brasil
( http://www.inpe.br/crs/geodesastres ). 
The workshop to be carried out in Spanish and Portuguese.
Contact: Ms. Tania Sausen, tania at ltid.inpe.br 
http://www.inpe.br/ingles/news/news_not16.php
Latin American Experts in space-based monitoring for natural disaster will be at CRS/INPE in September 
Settled in the Southern Regional Center of the National Institute of Space Research, (CRS/INPE), in Santa Maria (RS), the Regional Center of Education in Science and Space Technologies for Latin America and Caribe (CRECTEALC) will promote from 8th to 12th September the "I GEOSS/UN-SPIDER Spring School on Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management and Emergency Response-Flooding"
The event will be held in partnership with the Nucleus of Research and application of Geotechnologies for Natural Disaster and Extreme Events – GEODESASTRES-SUL, created by INPE to support prevention, management and mitigation of natural disasters and extreme events and its consequences using space-based information and geotechnologies.
Designed to Latin American and Caribbean experts, the event will show the current situation of the space technology to natural disasters monitoring, more specifically about flooding, how to identify the best ways for answering emergencies and to discuss about the establishment of expert network about space–based information for natural disaster.


      
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