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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 March 28, 2025, M7.7 earthquake near Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar), occurred as the result of strike-slip faulting between the India and Eurasia plates. Focal mechanism solutions indicate that slip ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Space-based Information: The MERIT DEM was developed by removing multiple error components (absolute bias, stripe noise, speckle noise, and tree height bias) from the ...
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 ...
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