We present an adaptive system for the automatic assessment of both physical and anthropic fire impact factors. The aim is to provide an integrated methodology exploiting a complex data structure made of SAR images and several other information sources to obtain a fire susceptibility map of a specific region of interest.
read moreThe Agustin Codazzi Geographic Institute (IGAC) of Colombia and UNOOSA recently signed a cooperation agreement making IGAC the newest UN-SPIDER RSO. IGAC has been promoting the use of space-based information within Colombia for a variety of purposes and has also been supporting UN-SPIDER in activities conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean. As an RSO, IGAC will continue to provide support in terms of experts towards the provision of technical advisory support to countries within the region and will contribute to capacity building efforts in this region.