NISAR’s First Radar Images Signal New Capabilities in Global Monitoring ...
UN-SPIDER Advances Space-Based Solutions For Coastal Resilience At The 32nd UN/IAF Workshop ...
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Pretoria, South Africa, 15–19 September 2025 – UN-SPIDER cooperated with the Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL) ...
Budapest, 18 September 2025 – The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), through its UN-SPIDER programme, joined global experts, scientists, and disaster risk managers at the 2025 ...
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 ...
Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, 26 August 2025 – Luxembourg successfully placed its first national Earth observation satellite, the National Advanced Optical System (NAOS), into orbit aboard ...
A new UN-SPIDER user story highlights the critical role of space-based technologies in preventing dam failures and enhancing disaster preparedness. On 23 July 2018, Saddle Dam D, part of the Xe ...
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 ...