Symposium sessions are expected to include: opportunities for integration in the application of Earth observations across Agenda 2030, the Paris Climate Agreement, and the Sendai Framework; roles for Earth observations in supporting the Paris Climate Agreement, challenges and opportunities for...

Organized by SERVIR-West Africa, under the auspices of the Permanent Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel (CILSS) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Land Classification and Methodologies conference has the objective to review of...

Geographic Information is now applied everywhere and the neighbouring domains are about to understand the full potential of geographic information. The international standardization process of geodata has gone forward in nearly 25 years and the systematic reviews of the first...

Under the "Building disaster resilience in Pakistan (BDRP)" Programme, FAO’s Geospatial Unit has been supporting the implementation of Pakistan’s National Disaster Risk Reduction Policy Project (OSRO/Pak/601/UK)in the Sindh and Punjab provinces.

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The workshop on “Land cover mapping to support natural resources assessment and conflict mitigation strategies in South Sudan” have the multiple objectives to: provide a training to national experts on land cover mapping methodologies; discuss on land cover classification system...