Nepal has taken an important step forward in enhancing disaster preparedness by hosting its first National Flood Simulation ...

The oil slick creeping toward Iran's Hara wetlands shows why remote sensing is no longer optional in conflict zones As the ...

The Climate Camera (ClimCam), developed through a collaboration between the Kenya Space Agency, the Egyptian Space Agency, ...

The 11th Annual UN-SPIDER Beijing Conference will provide a strategic platform to take stock of a decade of Beijing Conferences and to examine how space technologies can support stronger climate and ...

INSIVUMEH is the entity that constantly monitors the surge, weather, earthquakes and volcanoes in Guatemala, a country with high risks of natural disasters. It does so in order to predict, prevent, ...

The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) was set up by the General Assembly in 1959. Since its establishment, the Committee's membership has continued to expand. The Committee is the ...

Space-based Information: The Global Landslide Catalog (GLC) was developed with the goal of identifying rainfall-triggered landslide events around the world, regardless of size, impacts or location.

Despite significant progress in strengthening early warning systems across the world, often by making use of advances in science and technology, unmet needs remain. Disasters are increasing in ...

Description: trends.earth is a QGIS extension for analyzing land changes. Various tools allow visualization, download and analysis of data. With the visualization tool, base maps of all countries, ...

Droughts make considerable effects on agricultural and agro-pastoral areas due to their substantial dependency on rainfall. Agricultural drought monitoring is very important to maintain food security ...

In the aftermath of the September 2023 Derna flood disaster in Libya, a number of different tools allowed rapid assessment of the situation to facilitate the response and reduce further risks. An open ...

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 ...