<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">Hours after the earthquake along the border area between Iraq and Iran at night of Nov 12, 2017, ChinaGEOSS launched the CDDR mechanism </span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">(ChinaGEOSS Disaster Data Response) for emergency data response and got quick support from most of China operational satellite agencies and </span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">international partners.</span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">An data portal for this event was released at 7:00 am of Nov 14, developed by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth in CAS. It published the first bundle of data contributed by China National Satellite Meteorological Center, Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Co.Ltd, Chang </span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd and China Center for Resources Satellite Date and Application, with 249 scenes image from 5 satellites. More Chinese high resolution satellites have made special observing plan to get post-disaster damage images as soon as possible. All the data is applied a </span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">clear data policy for ChinaGEOSS disaster cooperation. </span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">International user can access these data and related information by the link of <a href="http://www.chinageoss.org/IraqEarthQuake2017/en/index.html" style="text-decoration-line:none">http://www.chinageoss.org/IraqEarthQuake2017/en/index.html</a>. </span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">According to the normal condition, this call for observing activities will last for about one week and the data service will keep open even after this </span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">emergency stage. At this moment, this work has been supported by and collaborated with many international organizations and programmes, such as GEO, AOGEOSS, CODATA, DBAR, WDS, IRDR, APSCO, OpenStreetMap and UNOSAT.</span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">                                       <img src="http://www.chinageoss.org/upload/images/news/910fc362-0cbd-49d4-b991-863306094f71.jpg" alt="" style="border: 0px;"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">CDDR mechanism has been successfully launched two times for huge natural disaster events around the world and played important role for the </span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">disaster reduction, such as NewZealand earthquake at Nov of 2016 and Mexico earthquakes at Sept of 2017. More than 7 Chinese agencies and 12 </span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">satellites have been involved in the past activities. It has been regarded as a best practice of GEO-based emergency response for Sendai Framework, </span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px">paralleling with the government level mechanisms.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Microsoft Yahei",微软雅黑,Arial,宋体,sans-serif;word-break:break-all;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px">As for previous releases relating to the New Zealand and Mexico earthquakes, the CODATA Task Group on </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><a href="http://www.codata.org/task-groups/linked-open-data-for-global-disaster-risk-research" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research</a></strong><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"> is strongly engaged in this initiative to share essential and timely data for earthquake response and research</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">What has CODATA delivered recently? See the CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2016 </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830</a><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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