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
Publisher: Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) of Pakistan
Costs: free
Format: export data
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Costs: free
Format: export data
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Costs: free
Format: export data
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Costs: free
Format: export data
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Costs: free
Format: export data
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Costs: free
Format: export data
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Format: export data
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Costs: free with restrictions
Hazard: Insect Infestation, Epidemic, Forest Fire, Drought, Severe Storm, Extreme Temperature, Pollution
Format: export data, export map, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring), web processing/cloud computing
Publisher: Copernicus
Costs: free
Format: export data, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring), web processing/cloud computing
Publisher: United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Costs: free
Format: export data
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Costs: free with restrictions
Format: export map
Publisher: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Costs: free
Hazard: Mass Movement
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Costs: free
Hazard: Insect Infestation
Format: export map
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Costs: free
Hazard: Insect Infestation
Format: export data, export map, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)
Costs: free
Publisher: Instituto Tecnológico del Salmón (INTESAL)
Costs: paid
Hazard: Drought, Earthquake, Extreme Temperature, Flood, Forest Fire, Mass Movement, Pollution, Severe Storm, Tsunami
Format: export data, export map
Publisher: MapMart - Global Mapping Solutions
Costs: free
Format: export data
Publisher: Airbus Defence & Space, European Space Agency (ESA)
Costs: free
Hazard: Flood
Format: export data
Publisher: The University of Tokyo
Costs: free
Hazard: Hydrological, Flood
Format: export data, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: The University of Tokyo