United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) ...

Hurricane Melissa Nears Jamaica As Caribbean Braces For Widespread Damage ...

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 ...

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 ...

Less than three weeks after its launch, the first MetOp Second Generation (MetOp-SG-A1) satellite has begun transmitting data from two of its six instruments, signaling a new stage in European weather ...

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 publication entitled "Mapping Disaster Resilience: GeoAI Best Practices from the UN-SPIDER Network". The compendium compiles practical case studies on the use of ...

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 ...

On 22 April, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), through the UN-SPIDER programme, officially established a new Regional Support Office (RSO) at Wuhan University in China. This ...

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 ...