A new UN-SPIDER user story highlights the critical role of space-based technologies in preventing dam failures and enhancing ...

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 ...

Space-based Information: The Sentinel Hub Playground provides a web GIS to explore satellite imagery from platorms Sentinel-2, Landsat-8 and MODIS. Sentinel and Landsat data can be displayed in a ...

Its mission is to ensure the right to health of the inhabitants of Guatemala, exercising the leadership of the health sector through conduction, coordination and regulation of the health services, and ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...