This database provides descriptions of a large variety of satellite imagery, elevation models, land use and land cover maps as well as near real-time data products for different hazard types. You can search the database by data type or hazard as well as by other relevant factors including costs, temporal or spatial coverage, satellite or file types.
When you select a specific country under "spatial coverage", please note that the system will retrieve datasets that are exclusively carrying information for that specific country (and no other country). This means that global datasets, which include information for a particular country of interest as well as for other countries, will not be displayed. As a result, it is recommended to start with a global search.
The results of each search are connected to other items on the UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal, such as the database of GIS and remote sensing software and the descriptions of natural hazards.
To support Member States in identifying and accessing relevant space-based information, UN-SPIDER also creates booklets that provide an overview of data sources listed on these pages and of particular interest to the countries it is providing technical advisory support to. The following booklets are available:
- Tunisia
- Ethiopia
- Cameroon
Costs: free
Hazard: Forest Fire
Format: export data, export map, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Costs: free
Hazard: Drought
Format: export data, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Costs: free
Format: visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Costs: free
Hazard: Drought, Severe Storm, Extreme Temperature
Format: export data, export map, statistical data (e.g. graphs)
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Costs: free
Hazard: Volcanic Eruption, Pollution
Format: export data
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Hazard: Pollution, Volcanic Eruption
Format: export data, export map, statistical data (e.g. graphs), visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere (WDC-RSAT)
Costs: free
Hazard: Drought, Flood, Forest Fire, Mass Movement
Format: export data, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Costs: free with restrictions
Hazard: Insect Infestation, Epidemic, Climatological
Format: export data, export map
Costs: free
Format: export data, export map
Publisher: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) - Columbia University
Costs: free
Hazard: Forest Fire, Drought, Flood
Format: statistical data (e.g. graphs), visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Costs: free
Hazard: Drought, Flood, Extreme Temperature
Format: export data
Publisher: Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Costs: paid
Hazard: Drought, Harmful Algal Bloom, Earthquake, Epidemic, Extreme Temperature, Flood, Forest Fire, Insect Infestation, Mass Movement, Pollution, Severe Storm, Tsunami, Volcanic Eruption
Format: export data
Publisher: Airbus Defence & Space
Costs: free
Hazard: Drought, Flood, Severe Storm
Format: export data, export map, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Costs: free with restrictions
Format: export data
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Costs: free
Format: export data, export map
Publisher: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Costs: paid
Format: export data
Publisher: Amazon
Costs: free
Hazard: Harmful Algal Bloom, Forest Fire, Drought, Tsunami, Flood, Severe Storm, Extreme Temperature, Pollution
Format: export data
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Costs: free
Hazard: Flood
Format: export data, export map, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: World Resources Institute (WRI)
Costs: free
Hazard: Flood
Format: export map
Publisher: World Resources Institute (WRI)
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