The CopernicusLAC 2025 Hackathon, which concluded last August, not only promoted innovative technological projects, but also initiatives which focus on the continent’s most vulnerable communities. “Comunidades Satélite”, winner team of the competition’s first prize, is precisely one such project: a
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Bogotá was the meeting point for a new chapter in cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union. On 19 and 20 November, as part of the LATSAT 2025 conference, a business matchmaking event was held, bringing
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From 17 to 8November, the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre hosts its first in-person training courses in Ecuador, designed to increase Earth Observation skills across Latin America and the Caribbean. The courses were held in a classroom provided by the Simón Bolívar Andean University (UASB), in Quito, which gave its institutional support for
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On 28 October 2025, Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, one of the most powerful ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. With wind speeds reaching 295 km/h and rainfall exceeding 1 meter in some
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The Vice-President of the Republic of Guatemala, H.E. Karin Herrera Aguilar, visited Panama with the aim of strengthening bilateral cooperation and advancing the use of satellite technology to address environmental and development challenges. During her stay, the Vice-President met with
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Sentinel missions as part of Copernicus Copernicus is the Earth Observation (EO) component of the European Union’s Space Programme. At its heart are the Sentinel missions, which provide free and open data to monitor the Earth’s surface, oceans, and atmosphere.
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Every year, disasters cost lives, damage ecosystems and disrupt economies around the world. In 2024 alone, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters, resulting in 16,753 fatalities, affecting 167.2 million people, and causing more than $240 billion
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Date: 29 September 2025 Location: Lake Poopo, Bolivia Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, processed by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre Description: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on 29 September 2025, shows Lake Poopo in Bolivia. In this false-colour view, vegetation appears in
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On 22 September 2025, the city of Antigua, Guatemala, was the scene of an important milestone for bi-regional cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): the Copernicus Policy Dialogue on Earth Observation for Disaster
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Date: 9 September 2025 Location: Santiago, Chile Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, processed by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre Description: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on 9 September 2025, shows Santiago, the capital of Chile. Nestled between the Andes to the east
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