Date: 27 January 2025 Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, processed by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre Description: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on 27 January 2025, shows Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. As a consequence of its geographical and
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Date: 9 March 2025 Location: Fuego Volcano, Guatemala Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, processed by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre Description: On 9 March 2025, the Fuego Volcano in southern Guatemala began erupting, leading to an ash column which reached up to
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Date: 6 December 2022 Location: Lima, Peru Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, processed by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre Description: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on 6 December 2022, shows Lima, the capital of Peru. Since December 2024, Peru has been affected
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Date: 19 July 2024 Location: Bogota, Colombia Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, processed by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre Description: This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 23 January 2024, shows Bogota, the bustling capital of Colombia. Situated
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The training will take place over 5 days. 30 participants from 8 different countries met in Bogota to strengthen their capacities and contribute to increased resilience of the Latin American and Caribbean region to disasters. Bogota, 24 March 2025. Today,
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Date: 12 January 2025 Location: Canouan, Mayreau, Tobago Cays, and Union Island (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, processed by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre Description: On 1 July 2024, Hurricane Beryl, which broke records for reaching category
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Date: 30 April 2024 Location: Menkragnoti Indigenous Area, Brazil Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, processed by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre Description: According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 30.8 million hectares of land in Brazil were
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Panama City, 3 March 2025. Last Friday, the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre concluded its second online training, focused on Remote Sensing for Disaster Risk Reduction and Forest Fire Preparedness. Over the course of five days, more than 270 people from over
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Date: 19 July 2024 Location: Panama City, Panama Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, processed by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre Description: Welcome to the first edition of the Image of the Week brought to you by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre! In this
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From 10 to 13 February 2025, the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre hosted a series of online stakeholder workshops, bringing together over 50 participants from 25 entities across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, including representatives from governments, universities, international organisations,
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