UN-SPIDER at a glance
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has recently released a new report on “Building Resilient Communities Through Geospatial Intelligence”. The report highlights the importance of raising awareness about the value of space-based information for early warning systems and risk and disaster management. Moreover, it suggests the need for a better definition of GEOINT... Read more
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), through the United Nations Platform for Spaced-Based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER), is conducting the eighth edition of the United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction from 24 to 26 October in Beijing, China. The event is organized together... Read more
The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) is conducting an institutional Strengthening Mission (ISM) to Ghana from 15 to 19 October. The mission is carried out in cooperation with the Ghana National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) and upon the invitation of the Government of Ghana. Thirty participants from more... Read more
Disasters cause tremendous loss of lives and assets around the world. Over the last twenty years, more than 1.35 million people have died, while over 4 billion have been displaced, left homeless, injured or in need of emergency assistance as a result of disasters according to a new report by the United Nations Office for... Read more
News from the community
A declaration adopted by a wide range of stakeholders at the second United Nations World Data, calls for an increase in financing for better data and statistics for sustainable development. The Dubai Declaration aims to establish a funding mechanism under the mandate of the United Nations Statistics Commission to raise resources to address the data needs for the full implementation of the 2030... Read more
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) launched a new satellite on 29 October which aims to assist with a range of tasks including aiding relief efforts after disasters.
KhalifaSat, a remote sensing Earth observation satellite, was put into orbit via a H-2A rocket which lifted off from the the Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan.
The satellite will... Read more
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) have released a new report that highlights the global trends in disaster losses in the period between 1998 and 2017.
“Economic Losses, Poverty & Disasters1998-2017” shows the significant increase of... Read more
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has released a 90-metre resolution global elevation model from its TanDEM-X mission for scientific data use. The data is free to download via the new Earth Observation Center (EOC) download service.
Digital Elevation Models (DEM) support disaster management efforts by... Read more
A drought/dzud monitoring system known as “DroughtWatch-Mongolia” has been officially handed over to Mongolia on 17 September by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI)... Read more
![Copernicus Emergency Management Service (© 2018 European Union), [EMSR317] Palu - Indonesia, Grading Map.](https://un-spider.org/sites/default/files/styles/w175xh150/public/Copernicus_EMSR317_07PALU_02GRADING_MAP_v2_100dpi.png?itok=pQj4cvGd "Copernicus Emergency Management Service (© 2018 European Union), [EMSR317] Palu - Indonesia, Grading Map.")
The International Charter “Space and Major Disasters” and the Copernicus Emergency Management Service Mapping have been activated on 29 September after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in the central Indonesian Island of Sulawesi.
At least 844 people have been killed and 64,000 displaced... Read more
The United Nations, the World Bank, the International Committee of the Red Cross and prominent technology companies have jointly launched the new Famine Action Mechanism (FAM). The Mechanism uses a range of data including satellite imagery to predict famines, ultimately aiming to prevent them.
Launched on 23 September, the FAM is a still-evolving algorithm that will use analytics to... Read more
News from our Regional Support Offices
Delta State University became the 23rd member of the network of UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices (RSO) on 1 October. As an RSO, Delta State University will communicate and coordinate with UN-SPIDER on a regular basis, engage in outreach and capacity-building efforts, and contribute to the programme’s technical advisory support activities.
Through its Geospatial... Read more
The Argentina National Space Activities Commission (CONAE) launched a new Earth observation satellite that will support disaster management efforts. SAOCOM 1A is the first of a constellation of two radar satellites. The remote sensing mission aims to provide timely information for disaster management as well as monitoring services for agriculture, mining and ocean applications.
The... Read more
Up-coming events
| Title | Organized by | City | Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5th World Landslide Forum |
International Consortium on Landslides, Global Promotion Committee of International Programme on Landslides (IPL-GPC) |
Kyoto | Japan | 02/11/2021 to 06/11/2021 |
| Eighth International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM8) |
National Science Foundation (NSF), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), The International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) |
Iowa | United States of America | 09/08/2021 to 11/08/2021 |
| 12th Symposium on Digital Earth |
International Society for Digital Earth |
Salzburg | Austria | 06/07/2021 to 08/07/2021 |
| ISPRS - International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Congress 2021 |
ISPRS, Société Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection |
Nice | France | 04/07/2021 to 10/07/2021 |
| International Plant Health Conference "Protecting Plant Health in a changing world" |
FAO, International Plant Protection Convention |
Helsinki | Finland | 28/06/2021 to 01/07/2021 |
| 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference |
International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) |
26/04/2021 to 30/04/2021 | ||
| Africa Space Week |
African Union Commission |
Nairobi | Kenya | 20/03/2021 to 26/03/2021 |
| Earth Explorers for Climate - The contribution from SMOS |
ESA |
Cornwall | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 09/03/2021 to 11/03/2021 |
| Mapping and Monitoring Lakes and Reservoirs with Satellite Observations |
NASA ARSET |
09/02/2021 | ||
| Taller Gestión de Incendios Forestales Mediante el Uso de la Plataforma Google Earth Engine (GEE) |
Mario Gulich Institute on High Level Studies on Outer Space, Latin American Network on Remote Sensing of Forest Fires (RedLaTIF), National Space Research Institute of Brazil (INPE), Mexico's National Biodiversity Commission (CONABIO), Argentina's National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA), Friends of Nature NGO of Bolivia (FAN), UN-SPIDER |
08/02/2021 to 05/03/2021 |
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