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UN-SPIDER has released a new publication entitled " Mapping Disaster Resilience: GeoAI Best Practices from the UN-SPIDER Network" .
UN-SPIDER has released a new publication entitled " Mapping Disaster Resilience: GeoAI Best Practices from the UN-SPIDER Network" .
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Recommended Practice: Flood Mapping Practice Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 ImageryUN-SPIDER has published a new Recommended Practice that leverages both Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and ...
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 ...
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 ...
On 15–16 May 2025, the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) of Kyrgyzstan hosted a two-day training workshop titled “Multi-hazard Risk Assessment for Risk-Reduction Planning.” Organised by UNOOSA/UN ...