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

On 23 July 2018, Saddle Dam D, part of the Xe Pian–Xe Namnoy hydropower project in southern Laos, experienced a catastrophic structural failure. This auxiliary saddle dam, designed to contain a ...

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 ...

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 ...

UN-SPIDER aims to bridge the gap between the various communities involved in using space-based information for disaster risk management and emergency response. These communities include satellite ...

The National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC), established in 1999, coordinates disaster risk management activities in Mozambique. INGC operates under the Ministry of State Administration (MAE) ...

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 ...

La reprise après une catastrophe implique les processus de reconstruction et de restauration des infrastructures et des moyens de subsistance, ainsi que des biens, systèmes et activités économiques, ...

This step-by-step procedure aims to illustrate how to develop a burn severity map in order to assess areas affected by wildfires. The Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) is used during the process as it ...

UN-SPIDER aims at ensuring all countries and international or regional organizations have the capacity to use all types of space-based information to support risk and disaster management efforts. To ...

To ensure successful technical application to disaster management, space-based information has to be seamlessly integrated into established policies, plans, operational procedures and infrastructure.