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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) ...
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), ...
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 ...
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 ...
According to a report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Norwegian GRID-Arendal organization climate change and land-use change may increase wildfire intensity and frequency globally to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rwandans can now easily access land-use plans and other spatial data through the National Land Use Planning Portal (NLUPP). The portal, the first of its kind in Africa, has been established on Esri's ...
The International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), operated under the auspices of UNESCO and the Public Works Research Institute of Japan (PWRI), has developed a concise ...