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 ...

The 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) will be held in Sydney, Australia, with the countdown to this significant event now underway.

United Nations/Nigeria Workshop On The International Space Weather Initiative the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) ...

The United Nations Office for Office for Outer Space Affairs has been organizing a series of workshops and conferences on ...

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

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 ...

UN-SPIDER has released a new publication entitled "Mapping Disaster Resilience: GeoAI Best Practices from the UN-SPIDER Network".

UN-SPIDER has published a new Recommended Practice that leverages both Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Sentinel-2 optical imagery to improve flood detection and mapping. Developed by the ...

UN-SPIDER has released a new Recommended Practice that improves flood mapping by integrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery with Digital Terrain Models (DTMs), offering a more accurate and ...

On 22 April, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), through the UN-SPIDER programme, officially established a new Regional Support Office (RSO) at Wuhan University in China. This ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched its flagship Biomass satellite on 29 April 2025 at 06:15 local time (11:15 CEST) from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, aboard a Vega-C ...