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, ...

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.

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 ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on 28 October 2025 as a Category 5 storm, bringing extreme rainfall, destructive winds, and severe storm surge that triggered widespread flooding and ...

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), ...

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) has released its latest report titled "2023 Disasters in Numbers: A Significant Year of Disaster Impact", shedding light on the ...