A new Earth observation instrument designed to monitor climate and environmental change in Eastern Africa has successfully been launched to the International Space Station (ISS). The Climate Camera ...

In the past year, “there were 315 natural disaster events recorded with 11,804 deaths, over 68 million people affected, and US$131.7 billion in economic losses around the world.” This is according to ...

The data used for this methodology comes from the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/) satellite imagery of the European Union Copernicus programme. Note that free ...

Space-based Information: Facebook Connectivity Lab in collaboration with the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Colombia University combines machine vision AI with ...

Sentinel-2 data from European Space Agency (ESA), is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, once the user is registered (Explore Data -> Copernicus ...

The Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) is under the administration of the Ministry of Transport and Communication. The objectives of the DMH are to take precautionary measures against and ...

UN-SPIDER aims to bridge the gap between the various communities involved in using space-based information for disaster risk management and emergency response. These communities include satellite ...

The Agustin Codazzi Geographic Institute (IGAC) of Colombia and UNOOSA signed a cooperation agreement to establish a UN-SPIDER Regional Support Office in 2011. IGAC is promoting the use of space-based ...

The Platform for Real-Time Impact and Situation Monitoring (PRISM), developed by the World Food Programme (WFP) since 2016, is a climate risk monitoring system, that integrates geospatial data on ...

As a means of emergency response after a flooding event or inland inundation, flood mapping helps to estimate the extent of the flood on a large scale. It is a basis of coordinating appropriate ...

The National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Authority (NRDDMA) of Nepal was established through the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) of 2017 to coordinate and implement DRRM-related ...

Recognizing the critical role of space-based information in strengthening resilience to climate- and disaster-related risks, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), in cooperation ...