The call for abstracts closed on 31 August 2025 and selected speakers have been informed.

HydroGNSS and Partner Missions To Strengthen Water-Cycle and Environmental Monitoring ...

UN-SPIDER’s Response To The November 2025 Afghanistan Earthquake ...

AI Combines Satellite Data to Improve Oil Spill Detection ...

Geospatial Innovation and Youth Leadership Highlighted At UN-SPIDER Disaster Resilience Workshop ...

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 ...

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 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 ...