Recognizing the usefulness of early warning systems, the United Nations has been operating early warning systems and advocating for their implementation and/or improvement for several decades. It has ...

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction was developed to guide efforts on disaster risk reduction in the period between 2015 and 2030. The framework was adopted during the Third World ...

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, ...

SPARRSO was established in 1980 as an autonomous organisation of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. It keeps close collaboration with national, regional and international ...

Satellite-derived data relevant for disaster risk reduction and emergency response is available from many sources and providers. The UN-SPIDER database on satellite data and products offers links to ...

The aim of this step-by-step procedure is to create a standardized precipitation index (SPI) timeline based on daily CHIRPS data. The SPI is used as it highlights the difference to the mean ...

Since its creation, UN-SPIDER's data base on satellite data and products has gathered links and information to more than 250 data sources related to space-based disaster risk reduction and emergency ...

From 23–25 June 2026, UN-SPIDER participated in the Satellites for Peace: An Idea Whose Time Has Come conference at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in Vatican City. Bringing together ...

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

In the past year, “there were 315 natural disaster events recorded with 11,804 deaths, over 68 million people affected, and US$131.7 billion in economic losses around the world.” This is according to ...

Seventh Space4Water Stakeholder Meeting is co-organised by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW, Home - ...

A new Earth observation instrument designed to monitor climate and environmental change in Eastern Africa has successfully been launched to the International Space Station (ISS). The Climate Camera ...