Official inauguration: UN-SPIDER Algeria Regional Support Office
On 6 May 2013, Mazlan Othman, director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, together with Mustapha Lahbiri, General Direction of Civilian Protection (DGPC), and Oussedik Azzedine, read...
View ArticleLocust Outbreak in Northern Africa: UN-SPIDER facilitates support
UN-SPIDER is providing support to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in response to the widespread locust outbreak by facilitating access to various satellite imager...
View ArticleLocust Outbreak in Libya and Algeria
In February 2012, a Desert Locust outbreak suddenly developed in southwest Libya along the border of Algeria and rapidly spread into adjacent areas of southeast Algeria. Gregarizing adults lai read more
View ArticleInternational Charter activated for Fires in Algeria
The International Charter: Space and Major Disasters was activated on 13 August 2012 to provide satellite imagery for the forest fires that have been ravaging the north of Algeria since June. read more
View ArticleCatastrophe prevention: Algeria, UN agree on space pictures use
Deputy Minister for Maghreb and African affairs, Abdelkader Messahel, said Thursday (January 28, 2010) in Addis Ababa that an Agreement between Algeria and the United Nations Office has been s read more
View ArticleASAL: Space-based information to fight desertification
Africa is especially vulnerable to land degradation, droughts and desertification. read more
View ArticleASAL: Remote Sensing for locust infestation in Algeria and Mauritania
Within the framework of its collaboration with the Algerian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) - host read more
View ArticleAlSat-2A: 1 year old
The Alsat-2A satellite built by Astrium for the Algerial Space Agency (ASAL) has now been in orbit for one year. read more
View ArticleAlgerian Space Agency tracks land use change with Alsat-2A
UN-SPIDER’s Regional Support Office in Algeria, the Algerian Space Agency, has recently published the results of bi-phase satellite observations on the towns of El Tarf and El Kala and their read more
View ArticleAlgeria: Maps of summer 2012 wildfires available
The maps requested via the International Charter: Space and Major Disasters regarding the wildfires that ravaged north Algerian forests during summer 2012, are now available on the read more
View ArticleInterview: Mitigating locust infestations in Algeria and Libya with space data
The Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) has been hosting the UN-SPIDER Algeria Regional Support Officeread more
View ArticleASAL provides training sessions in remote sensing and GIS to Sahara and Sahel...
From 24 November to 5 December 2014, the Algerian Space Agency ASAL offered two training sessions in remote sensing and GIS at the Observatory of the Sahara and the Sahel (OSS) headquarters in Tuni...
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