SUPARCO Launches Pakistan’s First Hyperspectral Satellite To Strengthen Disaster Management ...

UN-SPIDER has welcomed a new Regional Support Office at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). The cooperation was formalised through a memorandum of ...

The 30th session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) will take place in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. The event will also include the 20th session of the Conference ...

The Human Planet Forum 2025, “People and Planet: Shared Understanding for Informed Action,” will explore how geospatial data supports safer, more inclusive, and sustainable decision-making. The event ...

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 ...

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

Spacecraft orbiting Earth play a vital role in monitoring climate change, enabling global communication and navigation, and advancing scientific research. However, many of these orbits are becoming ...

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have co-authored a publication which emphasizes the importance of space technologies in ...

The World Space Forum 2024, organized by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in collaboration with Germany, Peru and the United Arab Emirates, has officially opened its doors in ...

Since several decades ago, developed and developing countries began to implement early warning systems to reduce the impacts of natural hazards such as severe weather, floods, and tsunamis. In March ...