Thailand’s Geo-informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA), which is supporting FROC information management, has won the United Nations ESCAPs’ permission to access near real-time flood data from the global constellation of earth observation satellites. ESCAP is now working with the regional satellite-based disaster information monitoring network Sentinel Asia, the International Charter Space and Major Disasters – supported by a dozen major world space agencies and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Read More