The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and UNOOSA signed a cooperation agreement to establish an UN-SPIDER Regional Support Office in June 2024. SANSA is established to promote the use of ...

GDACS is a cooperation framework under the United Nations umbrella. It includes disaster managers and disaster information systems worldwide and aims at filling the information and coordination gap in ...

A Regional Support Office (RSO) is a regional or national centre of expertise that is set up within an existing entity by a Member State or group of Member States that have put forward an offer to set ...

The UN-SPIDER Recommended Practice on flood hazard mapping shows how GIS and modelling are used to calculate simulated inundation areas based on land use, soil, elevation, and meteorological data.

The National Emergency Management Agency of Nigeria was established via Act 12 as amended by Act 50 of 1999, to manage disasters in Nigeria. Therefore, from inception, NEMA has been tackling disaster ...

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 ...

Forest fires can destroy large areas in a relatively short amount of time and are often difficult to control. Satellite-based information is used to manage forest fires and decrease the negative ...

Who are the users of space technology in disaster risk management and disaster response? What is the context of their daily work? What are their needs and challenges? The Risks and Disasters section ...

This database provides descriptions of a large variety of software for the processing and analysis of space-based information. You can search the database by criteria such as software type, data ...

The Centre National de l'Information Géo-Spatiale (CNIGS) is a public agency in Haiti, within the Ministry of Planning. The mission of the Centre is to generate and disseminate geographic information ...

What are vegetation indices used for? Vegetation indices derived from Earth observation satellites are important for a wide range of applications such as vegetation monitoring, drought studies, ...

The National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC), established in 1999, coordinates disaster risk management activities in Mozambique. INGC operates under the Ministry of State Administration (MAE) ...