In the immediate aftermath, the UNDP Sri Lanka office reported facing severe challenges in obtaining ground-level damage data ...

UN-SPIDER's Disaster Response Report to the Cyprus Earthquake ...

69th Session On The Committee On The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) ...

65th Session of The Legal Subcommittee (LSC) of The Committee On The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) 65th session of the Legal Subcommittee (LSC) of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer ...

63rd Session of The Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (STSC) of The Committee On The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) 63rd session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (STSC) of the ...

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has released its latest report titled "2023 Disasters in Numbers: A Significant Year of Disaster Impact", shedding light on the ...

Since several years ago, satellites have been used to detect fires. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor onboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites has been used to scan the ...

Spacecraft orbiting Earth play a vital role in monitoring climate change, enabling global communication and navigation, and advancing scientific research. However, many of these orbits are becoming ...

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) — the convergence of satellite-derived data with modern machine-learning techniques—has become a decisive factor in global disaster-risk governance. In ...

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), together with the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ...

UN-SPIDER has released a new Recommended Practice that improves flood mapping by integrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery with Digital Terrain Models (DTMs), offering a more accurate and ...

When disaster looms, early warning about potentially affected areas and the extent of the event are critical for disaster management efforts. Using in situ and satellite-based observations, two ...