Harnessing Japan's Digital Twin, AI, and Open Data in Disaster Management. Join Online: Join conversation on MS Teams Visit ...

Heavy rains since mid-December have caused widespread flooding across Mozambique, particularly in the provinces of Gaza, Maputo, and Sofala. Several major river basins have risen above alert levels, ...

Tropical forests, often described as the planet’s “green lungs,” absorb vast quantities of carbon dioxide, release oxygen, and play a crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate. While widespread ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border on 31 August 2025, with its epicentre in Kuz Kunar District, Kunar Province, at a shallow depth of about 8–10 km. The ...

Researchers at James Cook University (JCU) in Australia have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that merges two types of satellite imagery to better detect and assess oil spills at ...

The Training Workshop and Youth Forum on Innovative Geospatial Information Applications for Disaster Resilience and Response was held on 22–23 October 2025 in Deqing and Yuhang, Zhejiang Province, ...

Jiuquan, China, 19 October 2025 – Marking a historic milestone in its national space program, Pakistan successfully launched its first Hyperspectral Satellite (HS-1) from China’s Jiuquan Satellite ...

Less than three weeks after its launch, the first MetOp Second Generation (MetOp-SG-A1) satellite has begun transmitting data from two of its six instruments, signaling a new stage in European weather ...

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) — the convergence of satellite-derived data with modern machine-learning techniques—has become a decisive factor in global disaster-risk governance. In ...

UN-SPIDER has released a new publication entitled "Mapping Disaster Resilience: GeoAI Best Practices from the UN-SPIDER Network". The compendium compiles practical case studies on the use of ...

UN-SPIDER has released a new Recommended Practice that improves flood mapping by integrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery with Digital Terrain Models (DTMs), offering a more accurate and ...

On 22 April, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), through the UN-SPIDER programme, officially established a new Regional Support Office (RSO) at Wuhan University in China. This ...