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IWMI staff receiving the GeoSpatial World Excellence Award 2020. Image: IWMI.
IWMI wins award for innovative space-based drought monitoring work
Screenshot of the Earth Map platform.
Google and FAO develop web-based tool to facilitate big data access
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the SAOCOM 1B satellite. Image: Manuel Mazzanti/CONAE
CONAE successfully launches SAOCOM 1B satellite
Tropical cyclone Fani over the eastern coast of India on 2 May 2019. Image: NASA.
CRED publishes 2019 disaster statistics
Floods in Bangladesh in 2019. Image: UN Women Asia and the Pacific.
ICIMOD supports disaster management with streamflow prediction and flood mapping
Report cover.
Aerospace Information Research Institute of China tracks locust swarm dynamics and losses
Areas flooded and damaged following cyclone Idai, northwest of Beira. Image: European Union/Christian Jepsen.
UN-SPIDER and UFSM of Brazil deliver webinar on flood mapping and drought monitoring in Mozambique
Field Work on Ogunpa flood plain Ibadan, Nigeria. Image: GMES.
CSSTE creates data bank for flood events in West Africa
Sentinel 3. Image: ESA.
ESA project focuses on merging satellite data for water management and drought forecasting
Central-pivot agricultural fields along the Orange River in South Africa. Image: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016), processed by ESA.
Funding collective issues RFP for labeled agricultural datasets to support ML in Africa
Report cover page. Image: UNESCAP.
UNESCAP publishes report on protecting the most vulnerable from climate extremes and COVID-19 in South Asia
Image: UNFPA.
Satellite data supports UN anticipatory humanitarian action in Bangladesh
Image: ESA.
ESA releases call for Earth Explorer 11 mission ideas
UNOOSA Annual Report 2019.
UNOOSA releases 2019 Annual Report
Federal University of Santa Maria Logo. Image: University of Santa Maria.
Federal University of Santa Maria joins network of UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices
Global 3D model of urban areas, generated using TanDEM-X Satellite data. Sophisticated AI procedures are used. Image: DLR/ TUM.
TUM and DLR launch Future Lab for Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation
Satellite image over the eastern part of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh. Image: European Space Agency.
ICIMOD maps floods following Cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh to support response
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the fires over Borneo on 13 September 2019. Image: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
UN-SPIDER conduct webinar on role of satellites for forest fire management
Fire burning in northern New Mexico captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 in June 2013. Image: NASA.
UN-SPIDER webinar showcases methods to map burn severity after forest fire
Image: ©FAO/Sven Torfinn.
UN-SPIDER and IWMI host webinar on locust monitoring
Anak Krakatau captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 on 13 April 2020. Image: NASA.
New studies use ground-based, satellite and AI technologies to improve volcanic eruption forecasting
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