Wuhan University Joins UN-SPIDER Network to Advance Space-Based Disaster Management ...

Among the services that satellites can provide for disaster risk management and emergency response are weather forecasting, remote sensing, geo-positioning, navigation, television and ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched its flagship Biomass satellite on 29 April 2025 at 06:15 local time (11:15 CEST) from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, aboard a Vega-C ...

Africa achieved a historic breakthrough in its space ambitions on April 20, 2025, with the formal launch of the African Space Agency (AfSA) at its new permanent headquarters in Cairo’s Space City, ...

UN-SPIDER aims to bridge the gap between the various communities involved in using space-based information for disaster risk management and emergency response. These communities include satellite ...

UN-SPIDER aims at ensuring all countries and international or regional organizations have the capacity to use all types of space-based information to support risk and disaster management efforts. To ...

In the framework of response and recovery, there is a large difference between the terms emergency and disaster. An emergency is an event that can be responded to using the resources available at hand ...

Around 330-431M ha around the world is affected by forest fire every year (cf. Giglio et al. 2010). Forest fire is a natural hazard which can lead to large destruction of natural areas and livelihoods ...

When using space technologies for disaster risk management and emergency response, it is not only important to have access to space-based data and software, but also to workflows for processing and ...