A recent study published in Science Advances finds that tropical cyclones undergoing rapid intensification over marine heatwaves can lead to substantially more serious economic damages. Analysing ...

Space-based Information: Assessments of flood risk, on global to local scales, are becoming more urgent with ongoing climate change and with rapid socioeconomic developments. Such assessments need ...

The Ministry of Education’s mission is to ensure both access to and quality of Early Childhood, Elementary and High School Education in Ecuador. It does so through the integral, holistic and inclusive ...

The National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology is an entity with administrative and technical autonomy, with national jurisdiction throughout Ecuador and with international representation. It ...

Based on the report of the evaluation mission, UNOOSA notified India as being the host country for the establishment of the "Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific" ...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, is a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet. At its heart are the 17 ...

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 ...

UN-SPIDER COMMENCES TECHNICAL ADVISORY MISSION TO KYRGYZ REPUBLIC — A STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT TO STRENGTHEN NATIONAL DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT USING SPACE-BASED INFORMATION Bishkek, 8 July 2026 — The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vietnamese and American researchers joined efforts to develop a satellite-based system approach to monitor and manage transboundary flooding. The teams from the Viet Nam National Center for Water ...

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 ...