View active news

Landsat 8 captured the Lower Sesan II Dam and its adjacent rivers on 1 February 2018. While in 2010, 3 percent of Cambodia’s domestically generated electricity came from hydropower, by 2016, hydropower supplied 60 percent. Image: NASA.
Satellite data powers flood early warning system
Bali, Indonesia. Mount Agung eruption. False color image. 28 November 2017. Based on Sentinel-3 data.
Radar imagery supports analysis of Bali volcano eruption
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres with youth attendees of the high-level event on Youth2030, New York, 24 September 2018. Image: UN Photo/Mark Garten.
UNOOSA and SGAC launch Space for Youth Competition
This Envisat image highlights the lower Niger River system in the West African country of Nigeria, where the Niger River (left) and the Benue River merge. Image: ESA
Centre for Geospatial Information Science opens at Edo State Polytechnic in Nigeria
Drone view of Seychelles coastline
World Bank releases new practical guide on machine learning in disaster risk management
View of the Himalayan mountain chain from a Nepal basecamp.
ICIMOD report highlights role of disaster risk reduction for sustainable development in Hindu Kush Himalaya region
Air photo of the Mud Creek landslide, taken on May 27, 2017.
Satellite and airborne InSAR data to investigate landslides transition from stable to unstable motion
Sentinel-2 image shows burnscars near Cape Town, South Africa. The false-colour image shows burnt areas in dark greys and browns, and areas covered with vegetation in red.Image: ESA/ CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
High-resolution satellite images show more wildfire in Africa than expected
Screenshot of ORNL DAAC Soil Moisture Visualizer.
Soil moisture data sets become fertile ground for applications
DLR Humanitarian Tech Days. Image: DLR.
UN-SPIDER attends DLR Humanitarian Tech Days
Mission team and counterparts during the Institutional Strengthening Mission to Nepal in December 2018.
UN-SPIDER carries out Institutional Strengthening Mission to Nepal
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows Kazakhstan’s Alakol Lake on which large chunks of broken ice float in 5 April, 2016. Climate change threatens to disappear more than one third of Central Asia’s glaciers raising the disaster risk for vulnerable communities. Image: ESA.
World Bank project receives new funding for disaster risk reduction in Central Asia
The CCSTEAP organizes several courses and programmes in the upcoming academic year. Image: CSSTEAP.
24th postgraduate programme in remote sensing and geographic system commences this summer at CSSTEAP
The Japanese coastal town of Otsuchi few days after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. Image: Al Jazeera/Flickr.
Japan prepares to test early warning system using Michibiki satellites
Image of the tailings dam flood on 30 January acquired by Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. Image: NASA.
International Charter activated for dam collapse in Brazil
African farmers harvesting the crop in South Sudan. Image: FAO/South Sudan.
Satellite data key part of early warning system for plant pest infestations
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured false-color images of the State of Rio Grande Du Sul in 2007 Image: NASA
International Charter activated for floods in Brazil
Image: Group on Earth Observations.
Group on Earth Observations and Amazon Web Services open applications for access to cloud computing programme
In September 2018, an earthquake and tsunami hit the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, leaving thousands dead and injured. Image: European Union 2018 / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
UNOOSA requests activation of International Charter for tsunami in Indonesia
Screenshot of the Collect Earth Online tool.
FAO and NASA launch Collect Earth Online tool to track landscapes, land-use, disasters
UN-SPIDER lecture during the SAARC regional workshop and training.
UN-SPIDER and SAARC Disaster Management Centre conduct regional training and workshop for South Asian countries
more