The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, jointly developed by NASA and the French space agency CNES with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency and the UK Space Agency, is ...

NASA-ISRO Launch Enhances Global Capacity For Climate Monitoring and Disaster Response ...

UN-SPIDER Highlights GeoAI Innovations at AI for Good Global Summit 2025 ...

Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Information Technologies (GIT) ...

UN-SPIDER launched a new publication: “Space-based Technologies for Early Warning Systems” during its currently ongoing conference. You can access the pdf version ...

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 National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia (BRIN, UN-SPIDER Regional Support Office in Indonesia) recently discussed the use of remote sensing technology in landslide mitigation.

Tropical cyclones are one of the most powerful and destructive natural hazards. The interaction of various hazards during tropical cyclones, such as extreme winds, tornadoes, lighting, flooding, or ...

NASA's latest satellite mission, the Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem (PACE), has been launched into orbit, marking a significant step in understanding crucial aspects of Earth's health and ...

In recent years, Paraguay has experienced severe floods, droughts and forest fires which impacted communities and their livelihoods. The Paraguayan Space Agency (AEP), established in 2014, supported ...

A major earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck Turkey with epicentre on 23 kilometres east of Nurdagi (Gaziantep Province) on February 6, 2023. By the activity spreading to adjacent faults, the region was ...

The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) in collaboration with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), the Global Flood Awareness ...