The UN-SPIDER Regional Support Office (RSO) in Algeria is hosted by the Algerian Space Agency (Agence Spatiale Algerienne, ASAL). It was established during the third African Leadership Conference on ...

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

Background Information The project was developed following the UNOOSA Technical Advisory Mission in December 2023. In this mission, UNOOSA supported Tonga for improved preparedness and demonstrated ...

Description: The LandsatLook Viewer is a prototype tool that was developed to allow rapid online viewing and access to the USGS Landsat image archives. This viewer allows you to ...

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

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Attendees first learned how to use digital elevation models (DEMs) in QGIS to model storm surges, then moved on to applying Google Earth Engine (GEE) for flood response and recovery mapping—both ...

Wildfire, also called forest, bush or vegetation fire, can be described as any uncontrolled and non-prescribed combustion or burning of plants in a natural setting such as a forest, grassland, brush ...

Space-based Information: Compiled Vs30 measurements obtained by studies funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and other governmental agencies. Thus far, there are 2,997 sites in the United ...

The CommonSpace Initiative - Digital Twins for Commonwealth Nations Project aims to enhance disaster risk management and resilience in select Commonwealth nations using cutting-edge satellite data and ...

Convective/local storm: A type of meteorological hazard generated by the heating of air and the availability of moist and unstable air masses. Convective storms range from localized thunderstorms ...

File type: tiff, xml Data type: satellite data or aerial image Hazard: Drought, Volcanic Eruption, Earthquake, Mass Movement, Tsunami, Flood, Severe Storm, Pollution Disaster cycle phase: Disaster ...