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The Federal Emergency Management Agency
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Web site contains thousands of pages of hazards/disaster information The home page provides immediate access to news about recent and ongoing disasters, general news about policy and program developments, and much background information about both the agency and natural disasters.
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The American Red Cross
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The American Red Cross provides extensive information on disaster mitigation, management, and recovery. In particular, a large collection of individual and community disaster preparedness, response, and recovery information is available from http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster. The material is available in many foreign languages.
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains many Web sites with much useful information on geologic hazards, including a Hazards Theme Page with sections on earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, floods, and coastal storms; as well as maps showing the distribution of hazards.
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Project Impact initiative
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Under the Project Impact initiative, FEMA and the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) have formed a national partnership aimed in part at providing multihazard maps and information to U.S. residents, business owners, schools, community groups, and local governments via the Internet.
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International Association of Emergency Managers
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The Web site of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM - formerly the National Coordinating Council on Emergency Management) includes information about the association, its mission, and its Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) program.
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The National Emergency Management Association
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The National Emergency Management Association site includes information on NEMAs history publications committees and membership as well as lists of upcoming conferences information on regional communications updates on current legislation and other federal issues and state contact information.
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ISDR
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The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean has launched this site to promote disaster mitigation in the region and to help the unit better respond to the many information requests it receives daily.
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India Meteorological Department
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The India Meteorological Department was established in 1875. It is the National Meteorological Service of the country and the principal government agency in all matters relating to meteorology, seismology and allied subjects.
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Dundee Satellite
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Dundee Satellite Receiving Station, Dundee University, UK, maintains an up-to-date archive of images from NOAA, SeaStar, Terra and Aqua polar orbiting satellites. Images from geostationary satellites covering the whole earth are also available.
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Application of GIS
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GIS Development shall be a Global Geospatial Communication Network in Geographic Information Science, Technology and Applications and shall generate, evaluate and disseminate geospatial knowledge to all stakeholders through education, training, research, consultancy and media services.
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