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 Tunisian Ministry of Local Affairs and Environment’s main goal is to focus on the country’s commitment towards a sustainable progress, and to initiate and implement an environmental culture. Some ...

Space-based Information: The Global Drought Observatory provides drought-relevant information such as maps of indicators derived from different data sources (e.g. precipitation measurements, satellite ...

When a hazard event (such as a drought, flood, cyclone, earthquake or tsunami) occurs, triggering a loss of life and damage to infrastructure, it highlights the reality that society and its assets are ...

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 ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of El Salvador (Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería - MAG) governs all activities carried out by the State in regard to agriculture and livestock and with ...

The only request in return is that the user acknowledge the GLCF as source of the dataset in any publication or presentation.

A static Jupyter Notebook for automatic radar-based flood extent mapping is shown below. The notebook can be accessed on GitHub or directly executed in Binder or Google Colab. Please find below the ...