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Modeled catchment mean annual loss. For clarity, only catchments with a mean annual loss of >$1.5 million have been plotted. Image: Quinn, N., Bates, P. D., Neal, J., Smith, A., Wing, O., Sampson, C., et al. ( 2019).
Recent study presents new assessment method for rare floods risks
Damage from a 7.4 earthquake and a tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on 28 September 2018. Image: European Union/Pierre Prakash/Flickr.
Flooding affected more people in 2018 than any other disaster type report shows
FV3: Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere Dynamical Core
NOAA's upgrade of its Global Forecast System expected to enhance weather forecasts in the USA
Cover of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) 2018 Annual Report. Image: UNOOSA.
UNOOSA launches 2018 Annual Report
An artistic representation of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission. Image: Canadian Space Agency.
Canadian RADARSAT Constellation Mission to support disaster relief efforts
A sandstorm over the Sahara desert seen by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from the International Space Station in 2014. Image: ESA/NASA.
Applications open for UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference “Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management in Africa: Challenges, Applications, Partnerships”
Representatives of UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices and observer organizations..
9th annual meeting of UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices opens in Vienna
H.E. Gerhard Küntzle, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations (Vienna); UNOOSA Director Ms. Simonetta Di Pippo; and Prof. Klaus Greve from the Centre for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL) at the University of Bonn.
UNOOSA signs cooperation agreement with the University of Bonn to help Member States leverage space-based information in all phases of disaster management
Natural-colour Sentinel-2A image of Mexico City and surroundings. Image: Copernicus Sentinel data (2015)/ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
UN-SPIDER highlights role of Earth observation in understanding exposure of urban infrastructure to hazards at Resilient Infrastructure Forum
Flooding in the Pak Kret area of Bangkok, Thailand in 2011. Image: Philip Roeland/Flickr.
Review article discusses using remote sensing-based proxies to improve urban disaster risk management and resilience
SuperMUC-NG, the supercomputer at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ). Image: Veronika Hohenegger/LRZ.
German Aerospace Centre and Leipniz Supercomputing Centre team up to improve Earth observation data analysis
Ground deformation map of Pistoia in Tuscany. Using data acquired between 2014 and 2019 from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, the map shows subsidence in red and uplift in blue. Image: ESA/TRE ALTAMIRA.
Italy uses Sentinel-1 satellite data to monitor sinking ground surfaces
Image showing the movement of the Lambert Glacier, with ice velocity vectors obtained by using RADARSAT Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the 2000 Antarctic Mapping Mission. Image: Canadian Space Agency/NASA/Ohio State University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Alaska SAR facility. Retrieved from NASA Earth Observatory.
Images from Canada’s first Earth observation satellite made available to the public
Participants of the Second Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference (MHEWC-II). Image: WMO.
Second Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference calls for strengthening early warning efforts to meet challenges posed by a changing climate
Tropical Cyclone Fani reaches the eastern coast of India on 2 May 2019.
Indian Space Research Organization launches satellite to support disaster management efforts
Living Planet Symposium 2019 in Milan, Italy. Image: ESA
Earth observation practitioners gather in Milan to discuss latest Copernicus applications
Areas flooded and damaged following cyclone Idai, northwest of Beira.
Disasters threaten progress on sustainable development GAR19 warns
Tropical Cyclone Fani in the Indian Ocean captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on 1 May 2019. Image: NASA.
Registrations open for United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction – A Policy Perspective
“Space for U.S.”, disaster search
NASA web page shows Earth observation data impact on people lives
Panel at the First Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference (MHEWC-I): Saving Lives, Reducing Losses in May 2017 in Cancun, Mexico. Image: UN DRR / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Second Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference to focus on role of national governance in implementation and sustainability of MHEWS
Jean-Pascal Le Franc,CNES Director of Planning, International Relations and Quality and Dr Valanathan Munsami, CEO of SANSA signing the MoU
France and South Africa sign founding agreement outlining future projects
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