How can satellite data support climate adaptation efforts across Africa? On 21 May 2026 at 1:00 p.m. UTC+2, the 4th edition ...

Compound Effects of Marine Heatwaves and Tropical Cyclones With Rapid Intensification Increase Risks For Economic Damage Compound Effects of Marine Heatwaves and Tropical Cyclones with Rapid ...

WARM was piloted on two rivers of strategic importance identified in the water mandate list: the Guadalquivir River in ...

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), together with the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ...

A powerful earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in July 2025 has provided scientists with new observations of how tsunamis form near their source. Using data from a new generation satellite, ...

Flood mapping in urban areas poses significant challenges for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors due to limitations in detecting water in regions characterized by dense vegetation, urban ...

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In January and February 2026, Mozambique was struck by a catastrophic humanitarian crisis as torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone FYTIA and the subsequent intense Tropical Cyclone GEZANI devastated ...

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), through its UN-SPIDER Beijing Office, in collaboration with ...

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has released its latest report titled "2023 Disasters in Numbers: A Significant Year of Disaster Impact", shedding light on the ...

Since several years ago, satellites have been used to detect fires. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor onboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites has been used to scan the ...

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 ...