UN-SPIDER's Disaster Response Report to the Jamaica Flooding ...

Copernicus Sentinel-6B Takes Orbit To Strengthen Global Sea-Level Monitoring ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border on 31 August 2025, with its epicentre in Kuz Kunar District, Kunar Province, at a shallow depth of about 8–10 km. The ...

The Training Workshop and Youth Forum on Innovative Geospatial Information Applications for Disaster Resilience and Response was held on 22–23 October 2025 in Deqing and Yuhang, Zhejiang Province, ...

Jiuquan, China, 19 October 2025 – Marking a historic milestone in its national space program, Pakistan successfully launched its first Hyperspectral Satellite (HS-1) from China’s Jiuquan Satellite ...

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 ...

Esri, NOAA, and Dewberry have joined forces to modernize mapping across 64 remote and underserved communities in Alaska. Many of these communities are located in the state’s vast Unorganized Borough, ...

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 ...

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 ...

On 05 December 2024, the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite. The satellite was carried into orbit by a Vega-C rocket, lifting off from Europe’s ...