HydroGNSS and Partner Missions To Strengthen Water-Cycle and Environmental Monitoring ...

UN-SPIDER’s Response To The November 2025 Afghanistan Earthquake ...

The call for abstracts closed on 31 August 2025 and selected speakers have been informed.

AI Combines Satellite Data to Improve Oil Spill Detection ...

The United Nations Office for Office for Outer Space Affairs has been organizing a series of workshops and conferences on space law and policy over a decade. This year, the Office will hold the United ...

Urban areas are undergoing rapid transformation as populations grow, infrastructure expands, and natural ecosystems are increasingly replaced with built environments. One of the most visible ...

Geospatial Innovation and Youth Leadership Highlighted At UN-SPIDER Disaster Resilience Workshop ...

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has released its latest report titled "2023 Disasters in Numbers: A Significant Year of Disaster Impact", shedding light on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since several years ago, satellites have been used to detect fires. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor onboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites has been used to scan 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 ...