Seminar on use of space info in emergencies opens in Krasnoyarsk.

KRASNOYARSK, September 7 (Itar-Tass) - Possibilities for the use of
space information in emergencies in the Central Asia regions are under
discussion at an international scientific and practical seminar that
opened here on Wednesday.
Representatives of state-run agencies for emergencies from Iran,
Afghanistan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, as well as experts of the
UN Spider programme from Austria and China have arrived here to attend the
seminar.
An official in the press service of the Territorial center of the
Ministry for Emergencies has told Itar-Tass, "Rescuers will consider
matters aimed at monitoring emergency zones with the use of radar
photography from space, as well as possibilities for the use of data from
Russian spacecraft in monitoring emergency situations".
The seminar is being held on the basis of Siberian State Aerospace
University -- Russia's leading institution of higher learning in the field
of the training of specialists for the space research sector.
"Spider" is a programme of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs. Its
purposes are to render technical support in planning by national or
international agencies of disaster management and emergency response
operations in the event of natural calamities, specifically, tsunami
oceanic waves or earthquakes.