On May 23, 2017 CIK specialists participated in the 1st Conference on "Cooperation and exchange of information on missing persons - new technologies". The organizer of the conference was the Center for Searching of Missing Persons of the Police Headquarter in cooperation with the Association of Security Experts of the Republic of Poland. The host of the event was the Military Institute of Armament Technology.

On May 13, 2017 CIK team participated in the 4th National Search and Rescue Maneuvers "KAMPINOS 2017" organized on the occasion of the International Missing Children's Day. The maneuvers were organized by the Center for Searching of Missing Persons of the Police Headquarter in cooperation with the Institute of Political Science of the University of Warsaw, the Rescue Team of the Polish Red Cross (PCK) from Warsaw, the Specialized Rescue Unit s12 and the Jabłonna Voluntary Fire Service Search and Rescue Section.

On 10 May 2017, the CIK representative participated in the 6th edition of the National Scientific Conference "Crisis Management in the National Security System", which main theme was "Crisis Management in the Perspective of Terrorist Threats". The organizer of the conference was the Faculty of National Security of the War Studies University with co-organizers – the Government Centre for Security, the Main School of Fire Service, the Police Academy in Szczytno and the Science and Research Centre for Fire Protection.

We are delighted to invite you to the lecture of Associate professor of SRC PAS – Stanislaw Lewinski, who manages the Earth Observation Group at the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Aon plc, global consulting company, together with Roubini Global Economics and The Risk Advisory Group prepared the Map of Terrorism and Political Risks for 2017.

On 29-30 March 2017 the team of the Crisis Information Centre in cooperation with SEKA S.A., and on behalf of the Polish Chamber of Commerce of the Polish Water Supply Association organized a simulation game on security management in water supply and sewerage enterprises. The game, combined with the panel of lectures, took place in Warsaw.

Today’s night (2:49 CET) Sentinel-2B satellite, which is the twin brother of Sentinel-2A satellite, was launched from the spaceport in French Guiana.

On 01-02.03.2017 the team of the Crisis Information Center in cooperation with SEKA S.A., and on behalf of the Polish Chamber of Commerce of the Polish Water Supply Association organized a simulation game. The game, combined with the panel of lectures, took place in Wroclaw and was concerning the topic of safety management in water supply and sewerage enterprises.

US Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a prototype web application for Sentinel-2 imagery browsing and downloading - Sentinel2Look Viewer.

Józef Tuliszkowski Science and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute, as the organizational unit of the State Fire Service supervised by the Ministry of Interior and Administration, set up the Centre of Unmanned Systems "Drones Center". The Centre organizes a four-week training "Drones in geoinformation, crisis management, civil protection and infrastructure".

On 01-02.03.2017 the team of the Crisis Information Center in cooperation with SEKA S.A., and on behalf of the Polish Chamber of Commerce of the Polish Water Supply Association organized a simulation game. The game, combined with the panel of lectures, took place in Poznan and was concerning the topic of safety management in water supply and sewerage enterprises.

The Emergency Response Coordination Center is an information platform under the ECHO (European Commission on Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection). ECHO operates within the European Union and abroad delivering international humanitarian aid. Daily Maps has published a map showing the distribution of floods in Europe between 2006 and 2016.

The Space sector task force first meeting was held in the headquarter of the Marshal's Office of Mazovian Voivodship. The meeting was realized as a part of so called working groups on intelligent specializations in the Mazovian voivodship. Eventually, the task force should support the Office, by pointing the directions of space sector development, as well as determining sources and limits of its financing.

Planet company, the world leader in imaging the Earth with the large constellation of nanosatellites, announced the integration of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 data on its Planet Platform. The difficult process of data integration turned out to be a success.

At the beginning of January 2017 a strong wind from the north led to the so-called retreat in the Gulf of Gdansk and the Vistula Lagoon, which contributed to raising of the water level in the rivers and lakes in the delta of Vistula River.