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 ...

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 ...

📅 Date: June 18, 2025 | 🕐 Time: 14:00 UTC | ⏱️ Duration: 90 minutes📍 Online (Zoom) – Register now Join us for an interactive webinar organized by EOTEC DevNet, the GEO Knowledge Hub, and ...

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 ...

Africa achieved a historic breakthrough in its space ambitions on April 20, 2025, with the formal launch of the African Space Agency (AfSA) at its new permanent headquarters in Cairo’s Space City, ...

Spacecraft orbiting Earth play a vital role in monitoring climate change, enabling global communication and navigation, and advancing scientific research. However, many of these orbits are becoming ...